{"id":536,"date":"2008-01-25T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/01\/25\/jorja-on-my-mind-or-whats-on-jorjas-mind\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T21:16:42","slug":"jorja-on-my-mind-or-whats-on-jorjas-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/01\/25\/jorja-on-my-mind-or-whats-on-jorjas-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorja on my mind or what&#8217;s on Jorja&#8217;s mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know it\u2019s going to be a great week when instead of<br \/>\n\u201cHi Ken, I do the standard cuts * in the last movement of the Tchaikovsky. What time is rehearsal?\u201d<br \/>\nI get\u2026.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGlad to hear that the barometer is reading well for the program. I\u00a0have\u00a0felt like a climber going up the sheer cliff for sometime now, but Elgar has been training my steps and I guess the time is nigh to cut loose. There are a million things\u00a0I would like to say before we launch so I hope we can talk lots between now and then. I will pass on one\u00a0friend&#8217;s comment to me about performing the piece, and this is coming from someone who knew Boult, &#8220;keep it moving!&#8221;. The things is, there are so many dream moments, halting moments, sometimes quite gently, sometimes quite grandly, but the motion always commences after these so the affect does not get laden but more conjectural or gestural, even recitative-like.\u00a0The cadenza is of course another string of thoughts and musings and will take all of us being <strong><em>in the ultimate state of reminiscence <\/em><\/strong>(emphasis added)&#8230;.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People, get your butts to this concert, and colleagues- let\u2019s practice hard\u2026.* FYI- there are no standard cuts in the Tchaikovsky. Doing the wrong thing over and over does not make it right\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><span \/>PS- Did you really think I was man enough to get through this concert without at least Jorja\/Georgia pun?<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/01\/25\/jorja-on-my-mind-or-whats-on-jorjas-mind\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know it\u2019s going to be a great week when instead of \u201cHi Ken, I do the standard cuts * in the last movement of the Tchaikovsky. What time is rehearsal?\u201d I get\u2026. \u00a0 \u201cGlad to hear that the barometer is reading well for the program. I\u00a0have\u00a0felt like a climber going up the sheer cliff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}