{"id":79243,"date":"2021-07-08T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?post_type=ac_pitmancd&#038;p=79243"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:04:41","slug":"john-pitman-review-conspirares-the-singing-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/john-pitman-review-conspirares-the-singing-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pitman Review: Conspirare&#8217;s The Singing Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin, Texas-based choir, <a href=\"https:\/\/conspirare.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conspirare<\/a>, give voice to poets and writers from across the spectrum of nationality and gender in their latest recording, The Singing Guitar. Founder and director, Craig Hella Johnson, commissioned new works from composers such as Reena Esmail, Nico Muhly, and Kile Smith that highlight the words of the Sufi poet Hafiz, pioneer and indigenous women in the 1880s; and of the Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore.<\/p>\n<p>Giving \u201cThe Singing Guitar\u201d an added literal and figurative quality are no fewer than three guitar quartets: the Los Angeles, Texas and Austin quartets are heard most fully in How Little You Are, by Nico Muhly. Cellist Douglas Harvey joins Conspirare for The Dawn\u2019s Early Light, and Craig Hella Johnson\u2019s The Song that I Came to Sing. Listen to John Pitman\u2019s conversation with Johnson to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Singing-Guitar-Conspirare\/dp\/B08F8FMRMM\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Conspirare&amp;qid=1625611466&amp;s=music&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUY NOW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin, Texas-based choir, Conspirare, give voice to poets and writers from across the spectrum of nationality and gender in their latest recording, The Singing Guitar. Founder and director, Craig Hella Johnson, commissioned new works from composers such as Reena Esmail, Nico Muhly, and Kile Smith that highlight the words of the Sufi poet Hafiz, &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":79246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pitman-reviews"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:49:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}