{"id":12044,"date":"2019-11-14T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:09:46","slug":"organ_concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/11\/14\/organ_concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second of five, in a series of lunchtime organ concerts that I&#8217;ve booked tickets to. This time we heard Sebastian Johansson, Sweden&#8217;s youngest organist. The hall was not packed but the crowd was definitely larger than last time.<\/p>\n<p>Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major.<br \/>\nDemessieux, Te Deum.<br \/>\nSebastian Johansson, improvisation on a given theme.<br \/>\nAvicii, Wake Me Up.<\/p>\n<p>For me, much of this concert was &#8220;interesting&#8221; rather than enjoyable. The sound of organ music can range from delicate to industrial. Much of today&#8217;s music ranged towards noise, for my ears &#8211; even the Bach prelude. Too many notes at the same time, at too high volume. But the concert was an interesting display of the organ&#8217;s versatility.<\/p>\n<p>The improvisation was fun to hear. The theme he was given was the jingle of Hemglass ice cream vans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second of five, in a series of lunchtime organ concerts that I&#8217;ve booked tickets to. This time we heard Sebastian Johansson, Sweden&#8217;s youngest organist. The hall was not packed but the crowd was definitely larger than last time. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major. Demessieux, Te Deum. Sebastian Johansson, improvisation on a given [&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-12044","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\/12044","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=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}