{"id":369,"date":"2014-10-25T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/?p=369"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T21:00:37","slug":"mark-ushers-neron-kaisar-an-operatic-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Mark Usher\u2019s &#8216;Neron Kaisar&#8217;: An Operatic Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWhat makes this project different,\u201d says Usher, \u201cis it\u2019s a pastiche form that is a modern application of the very ancient technique of centonizing, or creating a cento \u2014 which means a patchwork \u2014 so I draw from all sorts of famous poems by ancient authors.\u201d Those include Sappho, Virgil, Archilochus, and Seneca, among many others. The characters sing sections of poems and texts as lines of dramatic plots.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read the full story on the UVM website<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Mark Usher\u2019s 'Neron Kaisar': An Operatic Quilt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~uvmpr\/?Page=news&amp;&amp;storyID=19221\">http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~uvmpr\/?Page=news&amp;&amp;storyID=19221<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat makes this project different,\u201d says Usher, \u201cis it\u2019s a pastiche form that is a modern application of the very ancient technique of centonizing, or creating a cento \u2014 which means a patchwork \u2014 so I draw from all sorts of famous poems by ancient authors.\u201d Those include Sappho, Virgil, Archilochus, and Seneca, among many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.neron-kaisar-the-opera.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}