{"id":22031,"date":"2024-10-10T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T10:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=22031"},"modified":"2024-10-10T23:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:29:16","slug":"american-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/american-music\/","title":{"rendered":"American music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein the great Aaron Copland demonstrates once again why he tops the very short list* of American composers who truly, truly <em>matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vu_Q9ijKx8c?si=tAgu_re6-VFqiSms\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"footnote\"><em>*That list consists, in my not at all humble opinion, of three (3) names: Copland, George Gershwin, and Lenny Bernstein. Although I freely admit that a damned good case could be made for including Ray \u201cThe Genius\u201d Charles on that list also.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update!<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019ve run this one before, but what the hell, I see no reason to resist an encore: the National Youth Orchestra\u2019s spirited performance of the well-known and ever-popular companion piece to the above &#8220;Saturday Night Waltz\u201d from Copland\u2019s <em>Rodeo<\/em>\u2014HOE-DOWN!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYdDYSTEuWo?si=-NnZCCgeJn_80Zzv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Any questions on why I call him the GREAT Aaron Copland, people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein the great Aaron Copland demonstrates once again why he tops the very short list* of American composers who truly, truly matter. *That list consists, in my not at all humble opinion, of three (3) names: Copland, George Gershwin, and Lenny Bernstein. Although I freely&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/american-music\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  American music<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-brilliant","category-classical","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-171-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22056,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22031\/revisions\/22056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}