{"id":71,"date":"2007-10-26T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/spblog\/2007\/10\/26\/future-of-life-almost-ready-for\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:35:35","slug":"future-of-life-almost-ready-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/future-of-life-almost-ready-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Life almost ready for premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, we had the next-to-final rehearsal of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/store\/product\/future-of-life-chorus\/\">The Future of Life<\/a><\/strong> and I met the trombone player. I had hoped to work with him during my composing phase, but I never made contact. However, he is spot-on with his interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>The chorus had progressed a whole lot since the week before. Some of the hardest moments are the spoken phrases, solo and group, and they are no longer sounding so tentative. I have coached them to call out their text as if they were at a rally. We&#8217;re talking about preserving the species of the world, after all! How much will it cost &#8220;only 28 billion!&#8221; if we do something now; &#8220;trillions, trillions, 33 trillion&#8221; if we wait and have to &#8220;recreate, manufacture, reinvent what Mother Nature used to provide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is ironic to grin when the chorus shouted strongly and forcefully &#8220;we are inside a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption&#8221;. It&#8217;s a very, very serious topic, but I was really pleased artistically with their rendition.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s the dress rehearsal, and Sunday October 28 at 4pm is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/projects\/futureoflife\/futureoflife.html\">performance<\/a> in Lexington, MA. I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, we had the next-to-final rehearsal of The Future of Life and I met the trombone player. I had hoped to work with him during my composing phase, but I never made contact. However, he is spot-on with his interpretations. The chorus had progressed a whole lot since the week before. Some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[89,110],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","tag-biodiversity","tag-trombone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}