{"id":8,"date":"2005-10-28T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T14:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2005\/10\/28\/willi-make-it-part-2\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T11:12:54","slug":"willi-make-it-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2005\/10\/28\/willi-make-it-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting there is half the fun part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve and I go through his two pieces today. One is a world premiere by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/\">Gerald Garcia<\/a>\u00a0called Heart of the Rose, a concerto in three movements for strings and\u00a0guitar. It&#8217;s a little\u00a0pop for my usual tastes, but it makes up for it with a lot\u00a0of\u00a0fresh humor and very good virtuoso writing for the guitar. I&#8217;m sure the audience will love it. Also on the program is Malcom Arnold&#8217;s Serenade for Guitar and Strings, which is a short, simple and gorgeous piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In the evening, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales\u00a0are performing at St. David&#8217;s Hall, and we go. It&#8217;s not one of their better programs (one new piece is absolutely awful garbage by one of the few composers in the world\u00a0who seems to make money hand-over-fist writing this dreck),\u00a0nor is it\u00a0a promising conductor. Still, after the overture, Steve turns to me, absolutely blown away. &#8220;What an orchestra! What a hall! Their brass are amazing- so much better than L.A. Phil!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I&#8217;m delighted to hear him say it- I see this orchestra work their hearts out week in and week out, and they always deliver in concerts. There is a truly\u00a0selfless culture in the band, and it makes for great concerts, even on nights when it maybe doesn&#8217;t deserve to be great&#8230;.\u00a0<\/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\/2005\/10\/28\/willi-make-it-part-2\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve and I go through his two pieces today. One is a world premiere by Gerald Garcia\u00a0called Heart of the Rose, a concerto in three movements for strings and\u00a0guitar. It&#8217;s a little\u00a0pop for my usual tastes, but it makes up for it with a lot\u00a0of\u00a0fresh humor and very good virtuoso writing for the guitar. I&#8217;m [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}