{"id":11962,"date":"2012-10-11T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=11962"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T18:42:54","slug":"muses-for-music-poems-andrew-wyeth-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=11962","title":{"rendered":"Muses for music: poems, Andrew Wyeth paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em>Kennett Symphony Children\u2019s Chorus will tour Brandywine River Museum for insight<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11963\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?attachment_id=11963\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11963\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11963\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11963 \" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Image 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Image-12-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members and associates of the Kennett Symphony Children\u2019s Chorus will take a tour of the Brandywine River Museum\u2019s Andrew Wyeth gallery for insight into an upcoming premiere performance.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Demonstrating the symbiotic relationship of the arts, singers and musicians will visit the Brandywine River Museum Saturday to study paintings that inspired poems that spawned music.<\/p>\n<p>Members, parents and staff of the Kennett Symphony Children\u2019s Chorus, which has been in residence for five years at West Chester University, will enjoy a lecture and a tour the museum that will offer insight into an upcoming performance.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 12, the chorus, which includes four ensembles ranging in age from kindergarten through 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grade, will perform the premiere of a work by Van Stiefel, a West Chester University associate professor of music theory and composition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Stiefel\u2019s music will accompany three poems by David Livewell of West Deptford, N.J., who based his compositions on three paintings by Andrew Wyeth, the late Chadds Ford icon:\u00a0<em>Trodden Weed<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Me\u00a0<\/em>(self-portrait)<em>\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Roasted Chestnuts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Museum officials, who are delighted by the initiative, said they expect more than 100 people to participate in the Wyeth tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Kennett Symphony Children\u2019s Chorus will tour Brandywine River Museum for insight Demonstrating the symbiotic relationship of the arts, singers and musicians will visit the Brandywine River Museum Saturday to study paintings that inspired poems that spawned music. Members, parents and staff of the Kennett Symphony Children\u2019s Chorus, which has been in residence for five years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,287,7],"tags":[180,2049,2050,1545],"class_list":["post-11962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arts","category-featured","tag-brandywine-river-museum","tag-kennett-symphony-childrens-chorus","tag-van-stiefel","tag-west-chester-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}