{"id":1067,"date":"2011-01-04T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2011-01-04T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:17:13","slug":"quite-the-voyage-so-fa-mi-sol-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Quite the voyage so fa.. mi sol la&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"264\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ktOvtOm7lrs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ktOvtOm7lrs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Where in the world is Alex?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not quite sure\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but I&#8217;m heading southeast into the Atlantic with a boat load of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexshapiro#!\/SymphonicVoyages\" target=\"_blank\"><b>really amazing musicians! <\/b><\/a>  Today was the opening orchestra concert, and conductor Larry Rachleff and the Symphonic Voyages orchestra totally rocked an all-Mozart program, with the help of a stunningly beautiful performance by Jimmy Lin on the 4th violin concerto. Gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I&#8217;m up at bat, presenting my aquatically-themed string quintet  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/CurrentEventspg1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Current Events, <\/b><\/a> which is in great hands with this crew of players. &#8220;Lilting phrase&#8221; gets new meaning at sea, when everyone is leaning a couple of degrees to begin with. <\/p>\n<p>This is a little bit like &#8220;Survivor: Cruise Edition.&#8221; I&#8217;m hoping that the audience likes the piece and doesn&#8217;t vote me off the vessel. If you hear a moderate sized splash off the stern later tonight, well, you&#8217;ll know how it went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where in the world is Alex? I&#8217;m not quite sure\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but I&#8217;m heading southeast into the Atlantic with a boat load of really amazing musicians! Today was the opening orchestra concert, and conductor Larry Rachleff and the Symphonic Voyages orchestra totally rocked an all-Mozart program, with the help of a stunningly beautiful performance by Jimmy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}