{"id":15163,"date":"2017-02-20T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2017-02-20T12:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:16:21","slug":"for-orpheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/for-orpheus\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;For Orpheus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0choral piece by composer William Brooks, commissioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossingchoir.com\"><em>The Crossing<\/em><\/a> as a part of &#8220;Jeff Quartets&#8221;, a concert in memory of Jeff Dinsmore. Original poem by Pierre Joris, also commissioned by The Crossing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/308416837&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the poem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jeff Dinsmore Acrostic Elegy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like Orpheus, for you, Jeff, we finger the strings of life<br \/>\nto play in sorrow and dEep choral dismay a plaint of<br \/>\nlife and death our co-Founders two notes enshrine us<br \/>\na vision we sound today For the absence of one tone as<\/p>\n<p>one man has left but we minD, with Orpheus, the care-<br \/>\nfully sheltered memory of his voIce and intellect of loving<br \/>\ncare, his hands-on life a true captaiNship we call on and hail<br \/>\nto celebrate your crossing he was an OrpheuS on the road<\/p>\n<p>calm, funny, with the sweetest huMan tenor voice, beloved<br \/>\nby &amp; loving his choral community, Orpheus, you left us in<br \/>\nthe city of the Angels,\u00a0c\u2019est la vie, \u00a0cRossing over,\u00a0c\u2019est la mort \u2014<br \/>\nyes, you led us here, we\u00a0will go on as wE sing you now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0choral piece by composer William Brooks, commissioned by The Crossing as a part of &#8220;Jeff Quartets&#8221;, a concert in memory of Jeff Dinsmore. Original poem by Pierre Joris, also commissioned by The Crossing. Here&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,73,91,1],"tags":[1906,1396,1905],"class_list":["post-15163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composer","category-music","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-jeff-dinsmore","tag-the-crossing","tag-william-brooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15167,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15163\/revisions\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}