{"id":74121,"date":"2019-01-11T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=74121"},"modified":"2019-01-03T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:17:11","slug":"stephanie-chou-comfort-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=74121","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Chou &#8211; Comfort Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 11, 2019 8:00 PM 9:30 PM<br \/>\n338 west 23rd street<br \/>\nNew York, NY 10011<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/comfortgirlWEB2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[74121]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-74122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/comfortgirlWEB2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comfort Girl is a musical exploration of the lives of Chinese &#8216;comfort women&#8217; who were abducted into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during WWII. The work is a tribute to these young women\u2019s incandescent courage and indomitable spirit, not only while in captivity during the War but also\u2014in a cruel irony\u2014when they returned home to their families, who didn\u2019t always welcome them back with open arms.<\/p>\n<p>Comfort Girl was made possible by a grant from the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.<br \/>\nThis performance of Comfort Girl is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.<br \/>\nLMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Chou &#8211; voice, alto saxophone, compositions<br \/>\nAndy Lin &#8211; erhu, viola, violin<br \/>\nKelly Lin &#8211; piano<br \/>\nKenny Wollesen &#8211; drums, percussion<\/p>\n<p>James Wordsworth &#8211; voice<\/p>\n<p>Peregrine Heard, narration<\/p>\n<p>Door opens at 7:30pm, show starts at 8pm<br \/>\nreception to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 11, 2019 8:00 PM 9:30 PM 338 west 23rd street New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74121","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\/74121","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74123,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74121\/revisions\/74123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}