{"id":472,"date":"2012-03-09T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/?page_id=472"},"modified":"2015-06-20T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:17:18","slug":"john-king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/?page_id=472","title":{"rendered":"John King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-473\" title=\"JK_vla\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/JK_vla-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>JOHN KING<\/strong> is a world-renowned composer, guitarist and violist,  who has worked collaboratively with many ensembles, string quartets,  choreographers and directors. He has had commissions from the Kronos and  Ethel string quartets that have led to an ongoing relationship of  developing new works. Since 1985 he has been a composer and musician  with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company working alongside John Cage and  David Tudor. From 2003 until the closing of MCDC in Dec. 2011 he was a  Co-Director of the Music Committee for the Company; curating, composing  and performing the music for their many performances including MCDC\u2019s  final 2-year Legacy Tour. He has written 3 operas: herzst\u00fcck\/heartpiece,  based on the text of Heiner M\u00fcller, premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn  Festival; la belle captive based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, which  premiered at Teatro Colon\/CETC in Buenos Aires in 2003; and also his  most recent opera, Dice Thrown, based on the St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9 poem,  performed in excerpt by the New York City Opera in May 2008; and in a  complete staged version which was premiered at CalArts in April, 2010.  It was during this working period when King first collaborated with  Stephan Koplowitz in bringing movement and music together for the opera.  He has 3 recent CD releases of music for string quartet; 10 Mysteries  and AllSteel (Tzadik); and Ethel (Cantaloupe). And he is also the  recipient of the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkingmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.johnkingmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-474\" title=\"3-30-2008 9-39-12 AM_0111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3-30-2008-9-39-12-AM_0111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN KING is a world-renowned composer, guitarist and violist, who has worked collaboratively with many ensembles, string quartets, choreographers and directors. He has had commissions from the Kronos and Ethel string quartets that have led to an ongoing relationship of developing new works. Since 1985 he has been a composer\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/?page_id=472\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":359,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions\/1338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}