{"id":5987,"date":"2020-01-27T20:18:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T20:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2020-01-30T21:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:47:49","slug":"ward-stare-conducted-recording-wins-grammy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/ward-stare-conducted-recording-wins-grammy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward Stare Recording Wins Grammy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Rapture<\/em>, a recording featuring the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) under the direction of Music Director Ward Stare with soloist Yolanda Kondonassis, won a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for composer Jennifer Higdon\u2019s Harp Concerto; the award was announced at last evening\u2019s GRAMMY Awards Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rpo.org\/rochester-philharmonic-orchestra-recording-won-a-grammy-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>American Rapture<\/em> features the world premiere recording of Jennifer Higdon\u2019s Harp Concerto, written for and dedicated to Yolanda Kondonassis, as well as Samuel Barber\u2019s Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, Op. 9 and the world premiere recording of Patrick Harlin\u2019s <em>Rapture<\/em>. The album is designed to highlight three generations of American composition, and, as defined by Harlin in the context of his work, to depict rapture not as a religious event, but as an experience of extreme human emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Rapture, a recording featuring the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) under the direction of Music Director Ward Stare with soloist Yolanda Kondonassis, won a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for composer Jennifer Higdon\u2019s Harp Concerto; the award was announced at last evening\u2019s GRAMMY Awards Ceremony. From the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: American Rapture features &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/ward-stare-conducted-recording-wins-grammy-award\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3907,3685,3613,3686,4207],"class_list":["post-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-award","tag-concerto","tag-conductor","tag-orchestra","tag-ward-stare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}