{"id":25544,"date":"2010-04-19T15:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25544"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:16:44","slug":"andrew-cyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/04\/19\/andrew-cyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Telegram highlights &#039;boldness&#039; of NYC music ensemble founder Cyr &#039;96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/12\/cyr6232.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/12\/cyr6232.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"Andrew Cyr &#039;96\" \/><\/a><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/life\/classical-gas_2010-04-18.html\">Maine Sunday Telegram<\/a> <\/em>reporter Bob Keyes visits New York City to profile Maine native Andrew Cyr &#8217;96, founder and artistic director of the critically and popularly acclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolisensemble.org\/\">Metropolis Ensemble<\/a>. &#8220;With boldness and vision,&#8221; Keyes writes, the ensemble is &#8220;accomplishing what larger orchestras around the country can merely dream about: commissioning and performing new music for an eager and enthusiastic audience in non-traditional venues.&#8221; The story includes Cyr&#8217;s wife, noted video performance artist <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2010\/03\/25\/gilmore-time\/\">Kate Gilmore &#8217;97<\/a>, and quotes Bill Matthews, the Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music, as well as Professor Emeritus of Music Marion Anderson. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/life\/classical-gas_2010-04-18.html\">View story from the <em>Maine Sunday Telegram<\/em>, April 18, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the story: &#8220;Someone was asking the other day, &#8216;What do you really want to do?&#8217; I think I&#8217;m doing it. I&#8217;m working with the greatest young musicians in the world and the greatest young composers, and I get to pick the venues. This is it. This is my dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,133,11009],"tags":[11051,1665,2568,4938,5658,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-25544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-bill-matthews","tag-contemporary-music","tag-kate-gilmore","tag-marion-anderson","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88024,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25544\/revisions\/88024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}