{"id":3380,"date":"2014-06-11T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/h\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2014-06-11T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T22:32:09","slug":"ladies-first-hit-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/ladies-first-hit-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladies First: Hit It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies First, an innovative concert series produced by Composers Concordance and the Czech Center, is excited to invite you to our third annual event.<br \/>\n_____<\/p>\n<p>The third annual Ladies First production draws from the fascinating connection between sports and music. In our upcoming production, Ladies First will offer a personal reflection on various aspects of this connection, from comparative performance of the musical piece with a football (soccer) match through explorations of sports which are traditionally performed and rehearsed to music\u2013such as skating, and capoeira, to setting music to a live beat of a ping pong match, and much more. It will be an evening-long celebration of the two not-so-different performance forms, which touch so many lives around the globe through the universal language of passion and lifelong commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Music and performances by Lynn Bechtold, Ken Butler (Tzadik records), Vicky Chow (Bang on Can), Dan Cooper (Ute Lemper\/Sound Liberation\/Erbium), Valerie Coleman (Imani Winds), Lori Cotler (AKA Loire), Jennifer DeVore (Zentripetal), Patrick Grant (Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars), Roxan Jurkevich (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra), Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker (Sound Liberation\/Absolute Ensemble), Michiyo Suzuki (Absolute Ensemble), Mioi Takeda (Miolina), Keve Wilson, and Czech electroacoustic duo DVA.<\/p>\n<p>Featured athletes include Emma Hayes of Chelsea Ladies, Sonya &#8220;The Scholar&#8221; Limonakis, the 1987 world weightlifting champion Karyn Marshall, and sensei Noboru Kataoka, kendo master.<\/p>\n<p>Program:<\/p>\n<p>Reception with 7 &#8211; 7:45PM<\/p>\n<p>Includes exhibion of Ken Butler&#8217;s &#8216;Sport Collection&#8217; musical instruments and the Third Annual Ladies First Award Ceremony (award made by Ken Butler)<\/p>\n<p>Concert 8 &#8211; 9:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Afterparty 9:30 &#8211; 10:30PM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fladiesfirstnyc.wix.com%2Fccr&amp;h=UAQFA4HaI&amp;enc=AZOnRUfzIkEyLby518TYBkk1JyCkFKMyjmy7ia7owMVsfvyTbXQV6Zt8ZHtrenpLm7Q&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/<wbr \/>ladiesfirstnyc.wix.com\/ccr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produced by Composers Concordance, Composers Concordance Records, and The Czech Center New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual Ladies First production draws from the fascinating connection between sports and music. In our upcoming production, Ladies First will offer a personal reflection on various aspects of this connection, from comparative performance of the musical piece with a football (soccer) match through explorations of sports which are traditionally performed and rehearsed to music\u2013such as skating, and capoeira, to setting music to a live beat of a ping pong match, and much more. It will be an evening-long celebration of the two not-so-different performance forms, which touch so many lives around the globe through the universal language of passion and lifelong commitment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9,3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gallerymc.org\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}