{"id":6603,"date":"2014-12-06T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2015-01-01T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:46:13","slug":"happy-85th-nikolaus-harnoncourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2014\/12\/06\/happy-85th-nikolaus-harnoncourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 85th, Nikolaus Harnoncourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 85th birthday to Maestro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Nikolaus-Harnoncourt\/108081429213773\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=108081429213773\">Nikolaus Harnoncourt<\/a>\u00a0(n\u00e9e Johannes Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d&#8217;Harnoncourt-Unverzagt&#8211; I really do need a posher name), cellist, conductor and visionary. Without doubt, one of the most interesting musicians of the last 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6606\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2014\/12\/06\/happy-85th-nikolaus-harnoncourt\/harnoncourt\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6606\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6606\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Harnoncourt.jpg\" alt=\"Cellist, conductor, visionary and lumberjack, Nikolaus Harnoncourt\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Harnoncourt.jpg 800w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Harnoncourt-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Harnoncourt-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Harnoncourt-380x254.jpg 380w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Harnoncourt-285x190.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cellist, conductor, visionary and lumberjack, Nikolaus Harnoncourt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zK5295yEQMQ<br \/>\nHarnoncourt, to me, represents the what happens when rigorous and questing sc<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">holarship is wedded to temperament, insight and a taste for danger. Too often, one can guess every choice of a HIP interpreter before they even give their first downbeat. Not so with Harnoncourt- for him, a historical understanding of style and context opens the door to ever more shocking and thrilling flexibility and creativity. He&#8217;s just about the ultimate &#8220;point of view&#8221; conductor- and we need more of them on the podium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/harnoncourt-orator-of-sound\/a-18112148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.dw.de\/harnoncourt-orator-of-sound\/a-18112148<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/2014\/12\/06\/happy-85th-nikolaus-harnoncourt\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 85th birthday to Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt\u00a0(n\u00e9e Johannes Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d&#8217;Harnoncourt-Unverzagt&#8211; I really do need a posher name), cellist, conductor and visionary. Without doubt, one of the most interesting musicians of the last 50 years. &nbsp; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zK5295yEQMQ Harnoncourt, to me, represents the what happens when rigorous and questing scholarship is wedded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6606,"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":[1029],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","tag-nikolaus-haroncourt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","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=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}