{"id":1931,"date":"2020-05-13T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/?post_type=work&#038;p=1931"},"modified":"2022-11-17T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:31:57","slug":"the-souls-messenger","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/current-repertory\/the-souls-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soul&#8217;s Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-4.44.40-PM-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-4.44.40-PM-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-4.44.40-PM-500x332.png 500w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-4.44.40-PM-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/meredith-monk-media\/1\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-4.44.40-PM.png 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:11px\">Bohdan Hilash, Meredith Monk, Allison Sniffin and Katie Geissinger performing <em>The Soul\u2019s Messenger <\/em>\u00a9 2012 Mus\u00e9e du Louvre \/ Olivier Ouadah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The Soul&#8217;s Messenger<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Meredith Monk has been called \u201ca Magician of the Voice,\u201d and \u201cone of America\u2019s coolest composers,&#8221; amazing audiences across the globe with her genre-defying compositions for more than 50 years. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which there are no words. With <em>The Soul\u2019s Messenger<\/em>, Meredith Monk &amp; Vocal Ensemble offer a quartet concert showcasing Monk\u2019s range as a composer and her engagement with performance as a vehicle for spiritual transformation.<br><br><strong>Meredith Monk<\/strong>, <em>voice and keyboard<\/em><br><strong>Katie Geissinger<\/strong>, <em>voice<\/em><br><strong>Allison Sniffin<\/strong>, <em>voice, violin and keyboard<\/em><br><strong>Bohdan Hilash<\/strong>, <em>woodwinds<\/em><br><br>Repertoire includes: Selections from<em> Juice, Songs from the Hill <\/em>and<em> Light Songs, Gotham Lullaby, Travelling, Madwoman\u2019s Vision, Choosing Companions, Hips Dance, Prayer II, Scared Song, epilogue, woman at the door, clusters 3, Panda Chant 1, Memory Song, masks, between song<\/em>.<br><br><em>The Soul\u2019s Messenger<\/em> premiered in 2010 at Lincoln Center\u2019s White Light Festival, and has since toured throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#99337d\">\u201c[Monk] may loom even larger as the new century unfolds, and later generations will envy those who got to see her live.\u201d&nbsp;<br><em>\u2013<\/em>Alex Ross<em>, The New Yorker<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1932,"menu_order":10,"template":"","acf":{"is_current_repertory_work":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/work"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}