{"id":342,"date":"2013-04-01T22:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T05:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.LorianBartleStrings.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2013-10-25T20:26:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T03:26:04","slug":"342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Easter Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n--><\/style>\n<p>Easter is a very special holiday for me&#8211;always a reminder of renewal and reawakening that is perpetually regenerated throughout the unpredictable cycle of life. In anticipation of Easter, I decorated my house with vases of pussy willow branches, a tradition that stems from Eastern Europe during Palm and Easter Sundays.\u00a0 I sang Ralph Vaughan Williams&#8217;s &#8220;Easter&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Five Mystical Songs<\/em>\u00a0and &#8220;This Joyful Eastertide&#8221; with the JUC Choir on Easter Sunday followed by a foothills hike that took place in a warm glow of afternoon sunlight.\u00a0 The following day, I performed a set of pieces at the Spring Ridge Park Assisted Living facility, several of which were inspired by Easter and the advent of spring.\u00a0 Included in the ten-piece set were the sing-along songs &#8220;You Are My Sunshine&#8221; and &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; as well as Andrew York&#8217;s compositions &#8220;Chant,&#8221; &#8220;Willow,&#8221; and &#8220;Heath.&#8221;\u00a0 York&#8217;s guitar works evoke the beauty of Easter choral music, longstanding Easter traditions, and the beauty of an open, uncultivated heathland, a fitting way to musically express the joys of spring to the residents of Spring Ridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter is a very special holiday for me&#8211;always a reminder of renewal and reawakening that is perpetually regenerated throughout the unpredictable cycle of life. In anticipation of Easter, I decorated my house with vases of pussy willow branches, a tradition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/?p=342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}