{"id":37724,"date":"2014-03-06T08:32:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=37724"},"modified":"2014-01-16T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T05:35:10","slug":"shomyo-buddhist-ritual-chant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=37724","title":{"rendered":"Shomyo: Buddhist Ritual Chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:30 PM<br \/>\nSt. Bartholomew\u2019s Church<br \/>\nPark Ave. at 51st St.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shomyo-Buddhist-Ritual-Chant.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[37724]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shomyo-Buddhist-Ritual-Chant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The glorious, reverberating voices of two dozen Buddhist priests in colorful robes fill the grand hall of St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Church. One of the oldest living forms of vocal music, shomyo is believed to have originated in India before traveling along the Silk Road and eventually entering Japan in the 6th century, where it has been practiced ever since. The critically acclaimed group Shomyo no Kai\u2013Voices of a Thousand Years, comprising priests from the Shingon and Tendai sects whose mission is to showcase the beauty of shomyo as an art form, performs the contemporary shomyo work Life in an Autumn, written in the aftermath of 9\/11 by New York- and Tokyo-based composer Ushio Torikai.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/shomyo-no-kaivoices-of-a-thousand-years\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:30 PM St. Bartholomew\u2019s Church Park Ave. at 51st St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37729,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37724\/revisions\/37729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}