{"id":10404,"date":"2018-08-12T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:10:41","slug":"the_real_group_in_sorunda_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/08\/12\/the_real_group_in_sorunda_church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Group in Sorunda church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to see The Real Group in concert. I was thinking we would all love it, and instead we came home quite disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>We saw\/heard them live two years ago, together with The Swingles. That concert (which I now see I didn&#8217;t write about) was a mixed bag &#8211; some songs I really liked, others were unimpressive.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping we would this time get more of the good stuff. Unfortunately I feel that TRG has moved in the wrong direction since then.<\/p>\n<p>The two best songs today, by far, were two folk songs, one Swedish &#8220;g\u00e5ngarl\u00e5t&#8221; and one Latvian. There was depth and emotion in them. The rest of the repertoire&#8230; less so. The songs newly written by members of TRG themselves were the least interesting. Possibly they were technically impressive, but I don&#8217;t have the ear or the knowledge to appreciate that. To me, these songs just sounded light-weight, superficially cheery. Tra-la-la, and an hour later I&#8217;ve forgotten them already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to see The Real Group in concert. I was thinking we would all love it, and instead we came home quite disappointed. We saw\/heard them live two years ago, together with The Swingles. That concert (which I now see I didn&#8217;t write about) was a mixed bag &#8211; some songs I really liked, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11253,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions\/11253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}