{"id":83244,"date":"2023-01-04T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/?p=83244"},"modified":"2023-01-04T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T00:31:00","slug":"interwoven-premieres-new-version-of-tumbling-from-the-ninth-height-of-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/interwoven-premieres-new-version-of-tumbling-from-the-ninth-height-of-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERWOVEN premieres new version of &#8220;Tumbling from the Ninth Height of Heaven&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;83242&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;165573&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;439418&#8243;]This past fall, the still-new ensemble INTERWOVEN gave the premiere of the newest version of my <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/works\/tumbling-from-the-ninth-height-of-heaven\/\">Tumbling from the Ninth Height of Heaven<\/a>. The piece was originally written way back in 2007, and was my first foray into composing for an Asian instrument. Back then, Duo vio-LINK-oto (Ryuki Mizutani, koto; Pia Liptak, violin) premiered the work, and now it&#8217;s taken on a life of its own. There are now\u00a0<em>four<\/em> versions of the piece, which may seem excessive, but I&#8217;ve enjoyed putting each of them together. In addition to that first violin\/koto duo, there is also a version for cello and koto, and a third version that adds shakuhachi to the cello\/koto version. And now there is this version for two western string instruments and koto, and the performers (Keiko Tokunaga, violin; Hikaru Tamaki, cello; Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto) do a fantastic job with the music.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;210655&#8243;]These performers are part of a larger ensemble, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interwovenmusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INTERWOVEN<\/a>, which focuses on intercultural music: music in which the intersections of East Asia and the West are explored. This is an ensemble I&#8217;m excited about, since there are now many composers writing for Asian and Western instruments in combination. This group will give a sounding board to those composers, and will no doubt facilitate new additions to the intercultural repertoire. Exciting stuff.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;83242&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;165573&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;439418&#8243;]This past fall, the still-new ensemble INTERWOVEN gave the premiere of the newest version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83248,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83244\/revisions\/83248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas-osborne.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}