{"id":383549,"date":"2026-07-02T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383549\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:06:13","slug":"san-francisco-selects-emerging-black-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383549\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco selects emerging black composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>norman lebrecht<\/p>\n<p>July 02, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Symphony has chosen Christopher L. Thompson for its sixth annual Emerging Black Composers project. Thompson, in his 30s, will earn a $15k commission for a new orchestral work for the SFS. He is presently a lecturer at  City University New York.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme was orginally the Michael Morgan Prize, named for the influential and sorely missed Oakland Symphony music director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"norman lebrecht July 02, 2026 The San Francisco Symphony has chosen Christopher L. Thompson for its sixth annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-383549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}