{"id":1745,"date":"2023-03-09T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsite.cssingapore.org\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2025-03-22T15:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:03:32","slug":"css-composer-cheng-jin-koh-composes-work-for-the-verona-quartet-at-the-smithsonian-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/09\/css-composer-cheng-jin-koh-composes-work-for-the-verona-quartet-at-the-smithsonian-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS Composer Cheng Jin Koh Composes work for the Verona Quartet at the Smithsonian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#f5f2f0&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px||true|false&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; text_font_size_last_edited=&#8221;on|desktop&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;1em&#8221; animation_style=&#8221;fade&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; text_font_size_tablet=&#8221;1em&#8221; text_font_size_phone=&#8221;1em&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>It is a great pleasure to know of Singaporean composer Cheng Jin Koh\u2019s recent compositional achievements with the Verona Quartet, commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum! Her work\u3010Mountain of Echoing Halls\u3011\u300a\u54cd\u5802\u5c71\u8303\u7279\u897f\u300bwill be premiered at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art on 9 Mar 2023.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.si.edu\/events-overview\/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D165237727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smithsonian website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo new works by Cheng Jin Koh and Texu Kim take stabs at examining elements of their respective cultures through the lens of a classical string quartet. Cheng\u2019s new work will feature a dancer and the yangqin (Chinese dulcimer) alongside western strings to paint pictures of the Xiangtangshan Caves and their magnificent carvings and detailed decorations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Mar 9 2023 (Thu) 7:30 \u2013 9:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/in-person-verona-quartet-tickets-549530539637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a great pleasure to know of Singaporean composer Cheng Jin Koh\u2019s recent compositional achievements with the Verona Quartet, commissioned by the Smithsonian Museum! Her work\u3010Mountain of Echoing Halls\u3011\u300a\u54cd\u5802\u5c71\u8303\u7279\u897f\u300bwill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-91"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cssingapore.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}