{"id":137,"date":"2009-04-12T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2014-02-04T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T02:59:51","slug":"desert-island-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in school studying music, on more than one occasion I would hear my profs speak about &#8220;Desert Island Discs&#8221; &#8230;.. music they simply couldn&#8217;t live without. Well you may find this funny coming from a professional musician but I have finally come to the realization today that there is music I truly couldn&#8217;t live without &#8230;. so I&#8217;m going to start my own desert island disc collection \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>#1<br \/>\nHolst &#8211; The Planets &#8211; Montreal Symphony Orchestra w\/ Charles Dutoit<br \/>\n(label &#8211; London\/Polygram)<\/p>\n<p>This is what started this whole post, and a no brainer for me. This work is so epic I can&#8217;t even begin to describe the depth of it. It&#8217;s truly a study in instrumentation and form. Holst does so much with so little material &#8230;. endless repetitions of a smattering of melodic motives. But in doing this the music still has a feeling of musical schizophrenia, contrasting sections of music make major tonal shifts and night and day differences in overall feel. And through all of this, every once in a while, he throws in the obligatory &#8220;sing along&#8221; melodies that just bring a smile to your face.<\/p>\n<p>This is absolutely in every respect a piece of music I could not live without!<\/p>\n<p>Eugene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in school studying music, on more than one occasion I would hear my profs speak about &#8220;Desert Island Discs&#8221; &#8230;.. music they simply couldn&#8217;t live without. Well you may find this funny coming from a professional musician but I have finally come to the realization today that there is music I truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eugenecormier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}