{"id":280949,"date":"2026-06-29T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280949\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:48:18","slug":"american-promise-composer-talks-america-250-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/280949\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;American Promise&#8217; composer talks America 250 concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As America gets ready to celebrate its 250th anniversary, New York City will mark the milestone in many ways, including through music.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday at Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic will perform &#8220;American Promise,&#8221; a new orchestral work by lifelong New Yorker Karen LeFrak.<\/p>\n<p>LeFrak\u00a0sat down with Stephanie Simon for more on what to expect at the concert, and her creative process.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As America gets ready to celebrate its 250th anniversary, New York City will mark the milestone in many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25,98,100,99,9,24,12,63,7777,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-280949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-stephanie-simon","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}