{"id":12286,"date":"2020-01-16T22:56:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2020-05-08T19:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:54:25","slug":"organ_concert_-_max_reger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/organ_concert_-_max_reger\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ concert &#8211; Max Reger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third in a series of five lunchtime organ concerts at Konserthuset.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s concert was fully dedicated to Max Reger. When Ulf Norberg, the resident organist at Konserthuset, introduced the concert, he said Reger was his favourite composer. Well, <i>de gustibus non est disputandum<\/i>, but I personally found Reger nearly unlistenable. I enjoyed no part, no aspect of this concert.<\/p>\n<p>There was just so much <b>stuff<\/b> in this music. It was bombastic, blaring, overdone. All registers booming, then near silence. It was like an ad for the organ at Konserthuset, one of Europe&#8217;s largest apparently &#8211; look at what it can be made to do! But I could discern no melody or rhythm in this. It was just unstructured sound to my ears.<\/p>\n<p>I wish there had been a way to discreetly leave the concert hall without disturbing anyone, but there wasn&#8217;t, so I had to sit there until the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third in a series of five lunchtime organ concerts at Konserthuset. Today&#8217;s concert was fully dedicated to Max Reger. When Ulf Norberg, the resident organist at Konserthuset, introduced the concert, he said Reger was his favourite composer. Well, de gustibus non est disputandum, but I personally found Reger nearly unlistenable. I enjoyed no part, [&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-12286","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\/12286","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=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12288,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions\/12288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}