{"id":890,"date":"2011-10-11T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2011-10-11T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T22:17:10","slug":"tunesday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Tunesday 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this version of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theospark.net\/2011\/09\/video-glass-harp-toccata-and-fugue-in-d.html\">Theo Spark<\/a> (main site probably NSFW), and thought it was pretty fun. My daughter reacts to it like fingernails on blackboard, though.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKRj-T4l-e8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I thought about finding other pieces performanced on glass harp, or perhaps on glass harmonium, to use as my theme for the day, but I decided to look for some other performances of the Toccata, instead. I thought about looking for a performance by Virgil Fox on the Royal Albert Hall pipe organ (my favorite performance), but decided to go instead for some less usual instruments as the theme.<\/p>\n<p>I was glad to find a performance by the California Guitar Trio &#8211; I&#8217;ve got one of their CDs, which has a very nice performance of Beethoven&#8217;s Fifth Symphony.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdEAccE7BMs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next one I found was this version. There&#8217;s a lot of accordion music I don&#8217;t care for, but I do like some. Specifically, I have a fondness for French accordion music of the type I associate with sidewalk cafes. This isn&#8217;t that type of music, of course.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmTG9wTfrzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never imagined a trombone quartet as a viable instrumental group, but this Costa Rican group does fairly well with the music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRSA48Njh7o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, just for sheer off-the-wall splendor, here&#8217;s a visually impressive performance on Zeusaphone:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LalPKzlbW6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this version of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor over at Theo Spark (main site probably NSFW), and thought it was pretty fun. My daughter reacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}