{"id":48421,"date":"2020-03-06T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=48421"},"modified":"2020-03-06T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:56:16","slug":"what-are-people-doing-march-6-1920-march-6-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/what-are-people-doing-march-6-1920-march-6-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are People Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week the Town Crier blog will look back at Seattle\u2019s near-forgotten <\/span><\/i>Town Crier<\/span> magazine to see what was happening then and talk about what\u2019s happening now. One of the largest sections of the original Town Crier was \u201cWhat People Are Doing,\u201d highlighting things like, \u201cYesterday afternoon an interesting demonstration of Dalcrose Eurhythmics was given by Elsie Hewett McCoy\u201d and, \u201cDr. Mizra Ahmed Sohrab spoke about the emancipation of Persian women that is currently going on.\u201d In this series we\u2019re revisiting the old column and tying it to our community\u2019s current happenings, asking: \u201cwhat <\/span><\/i>are <\/span>people doing?\u201d<\/span><\/i>
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\n<\/span><\/i>Today\u2019s entry\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

In the March 6 edition of the Town Crier<\/em> there was a brief mention of Seattle\u2019s local Composers Society. There was a program that \u201cmarked another milestone in the history of this club of talented musicians whose members are doing their part in making the history of music in the Northwest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to toot our own Town Hall horn too much but we have also done our part in making local music history. Last year, for instance, we were part of a Phillip Glass commission entitled \u201cPerpetulum,\u201d the first piece Glass composed for percussion. <\/span>Third Coast Percussion<\/span><\/a> gave its Northwest premiere as part of Town Hall\u2019s <\/span>Town Music Series<\/span><\/a>. \u201c<\/span>Perpetulum<\/span><\/a>\u201d was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music\/Small Ensemble Performance category.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next up for us on the commission front? Town Hall has commissioned a piece by Judd Greenstein as part of our coming yMusic concert that takes place on Town Hall\u2019s Great Hall on April 8 (tickets are on sale now<\/a>). <\/span>Known for his structurally complex, viscerally engaging pieces of music, <\/span>Greenstein\u2019s compositional voice<\/span><\/a> aligns with the stirring verve of yMusic, who embody the humanity of the music they play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The writers of the old <\/span>Town Crier<\/span><\/i> would undoubtedly be pleased upon hearing that Seattle\u2019s musical history is still being made at Town Hall Seattle. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not to toot our own Town Hall horn too much but we have also done our part in making local music history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-town-crier","category-what-are-people-doing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}