{"id":8726,"date":"2022-03-22T23:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=8726"},"modified":"2022-03-22T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:18:48","slug":"new-yorkcities-aerial-paths-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-yorkcities-aerial-paths-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Cities on the Aerial Paths of Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cities on the Aerial Paths of Communication\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_pdI-oBxyWc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">I wrote Cities on the Aerial Paths of Communication in 1990. It is about the fall of the Soviet Union but seems appropriate now \u2013 tragically. After the 1917 Russian revolution, artists, writers, and architects sought to build a new utopian society. This era of creative freedom was intense but short-lived, and by the 1930s, it was crushed by the brutality of Stalin. In 1928 Georgi Krutikov, an architectural student, created a series of drawings of futuristic flying cities, or \u201cCities on the Aerial Paths of Communication.\u201d in the song, the utter and unredeemable failure of the Soviet Union contrasts starkly with the early visions of the \u201cdreamers of a bright and shining world.\u201d In recording the song, I asked violinist Lisa Gutkin to play a dissonant elegy as if alone in Red Square.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<br \/>\nLisa Gutkin is best known as a member of the acclaimed Klezmatics, and most recently for her musical score, performance, and music direction in the two-time Tony award-winner, Indecent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote Cities on the Aerial Paths of Communication in 1990. It is about the fall of the Soviet Union but seems appropriate now \u2013 tragically. After the 1917 Russian revolution, artists, writers, and architects sought to build a new utopian society. This era of creative freedom was intense but short-lived, and by the 1930s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8732,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}