{"id":1126,"date":"2020-02-27T03:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T03:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:53:29","slug":"mendelssohn-piano-concerto-2-mvt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/27\/mendelssohn-piano-concerto-2-mvt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendelssohn Piano Concerto #2, Mvt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of me performing the aforementioned back in 2013 for a class recital. The piece was prepared for a school-wide concerto competition. <!--more-->Ironically enough, my collaborator (on the second piano) was my only competition. He skunked me and took the prize with Ravel&#8217;s G Major but I was still happy for him &#8217;cause he earned it. I took on way too much that year but it was still such an enjoyable and educational experience to take on a piece like this.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is dedicated to the late and great Bob Foreman.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1t0YJD5WB_I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also, here is a link to a (better) recording of this same performance:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1126-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mendelssohn-2-2013.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mendelssohn-2-2013.mp3\">https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mendelssohn-2-2013.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of me performing the aforementioned back in 2013 for a class recital. The piece was prepared for a school-wide concerto competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sights-and-sounds","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbAkEb-ia","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}