{"id":66530,"date":"2019-10-06T22:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66530"},"modified":"2019-10-06T22:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T22:19:33","slug":"sunday-surprise-musical-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=66530","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise, musical edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; two of my heroes, one old, one new today ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I had the privilege of seeing <strong>Shankar <\/strong>one time, I think it was at Occidental College &#8212; an evening with an undoubted genius:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqA4epWyBe0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shankar<\/strong>&#8216;s playing &#8212; in the above video, as he was that evening &#8212; a double violin, its twin necks allowing him to play drone as well as melody synchronously. Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect it was <strong>Ken Cowan<\/strong> who alerted me to <strong>Shankar <\/strong>and took me to that concert.<\/p>\n<p>New to me today, thanks to <strong>Bill Benzon<\/strong> and <strong>Bryan Alexander<\/strong>, is Japanese jazz composer pianist <strong>Hiromi Uehara<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1rxYw7Y45Eo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What friends I have! And what terrific creatives we have among us today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; two of my heroes, one old, one new today ] . I had the privilege of seeing Shankar one time, I think it was at Occidental College &#8212; an evening with an undoubted genius: Shankar&#8216;s playing &#8212; in the above video, as he was that evening &#8212; a double violin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,480,946,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-music","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66533,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66530\/revisions\/66533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}