{"id":67983,"date":"2020-05-17T21:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67983"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T21:17:33","slug":"very-proud-of-my-nephew-sunday-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=67983","title":{"rendered":"Very proud of my nephew &#8212; Sunday surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; as some of you may know, my nephew Daniel Harding is a celebrated orchestral conductor &#8212; but did you know he was also a qualified commercial pilot? &#8212; he&#8217;s been planning on taking a year&#8217;s vacation to pilot for Air France ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very fond of &#8216;air conducting&#8221; music I&#8217;m listening to &#8212; but that&#8217;s just my mode of &#8220;dancing while sitting down&#8221; as one of my teachers called it. Much more wonderful, IMO, is the work of my nephew, the conductor <strong>Daniel Harding<\/strong>. Today I ran across his performance, some years ago, of three Beethoven symphonies with the orchestra he loved and worked with for years, the <strong>Mahler Chamber Orchestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll share them &#8212; <strong>Beethoven, Symphonies ## 5, 6, and 7<\/strong>&#8212; such bodily enthusiasm, so fresh the well-worn music:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7A25EA5WsS4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Here, more recently, is <strong>Daniel<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Beethoven #3<\/strong>, the Eroica, with the <strong>London Symphony Orchestra<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTcXlbyzIk0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>And how could I not offer you Daniel conducting <strong>Beethoven #9<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKDbI80bfdw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel<\/strong>, who holds a commercial pilot&#8217;s license, was going to take a year&#8217;s sabbatical from music to work as an <strong>Air France<\/strong> pilot, but .. <strong>coronavirus<\/strong>. If I get any news, I&#8217;ll pass it along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; as some of you may know, my nephew Daniel Harding is a celebrated orchestral conductor &#8212; but did you know he was also a qualified commercial pilot? &#8212; he&#8217;s been planning on taking a year&#8217;s vacation to pilot for Air France ] . I&#8217;m very fond of &#8216;air conducting&#8221; music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2083,575,526,2085,1744,52,480,2084,946,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-france","category-character","category-charles-cameron","category-conductor","category-daniel-harding","category-france","category-music","category-pilot","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983","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=67983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67986,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67983\/revisions\/67986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}