{"id":235,"date":"2012-01-29T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2012-01-29T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T16:50:08","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-31-spotlight-operas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/29\/my-musical-evolution-part-31-spotlight-operas\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 31 Spotlight Operas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel fortunate to have been exposed to classical music all my life. For the longest time, my cousin was a ballerina. I may not have recognized the impact that would have at the time but going to all those ballet performances got me cultured. I didn&#8217;t realize how much until just a few years ago. A channel on FiOS TV would broadcast ballet perfomances every week. As I surfed by, I&#8217;d stop for a moment to take note of the music or the cosutmes or the configuration of the dancers [typically numbers and genders mix] and be able to identify the ballet being shown. Like a parlor trick this would slightly amaze my friends and family. But I digress. Here is the last stack of classical for now, but there will be lots more in a decade or two.<\/p>\n<p>Tritsch Tratsch Polka. Maybe it is my German heritage but I&#8217;ve always been fond of the occasional Polka. You&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJLhNg6RcWw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPiano concerto No. 1<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IL4P4OV8LVM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nDance Of The Comedians<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7uEV7FAua8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTurkish March<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SWDY-6u9LWs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nO Fortuna. My CD of this has the english adaptation of the lyrics. I say adaptation because it was not a literal translation. They are pretty interesting. At one point I had it memorized. It went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>O fortune<br \/>\nlike the moon you are changing<br \/>\nEver waxing and waning<br \/>\nHateful life<br \/>\nfirst opresses and then soothes as fancy takes it<br \/>\nPoverty and power, it melts them like ice<br \/>\nFate<br \/>\nMonstrous and empy<br \/>\nYou whirling wheel, you are malevolent and well being is in vain<br \/>\nand always fades to nothing, shadowed and veiled<br \/>\nyou plague me<br \/>\nnow through the game<br \/>\nI bring my bare back to your villiany<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about that?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BNWpZ-Y_KvU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOrpheus In The Underworld<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JvMtXv00GnQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI bet you all recognized that even if you didn&#8217;t know it was Offenbach.<\/p>\n<p>In the Hall Of The Mountain King<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xrIYT-MrVaI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel fortunate to have been exposed to classical music all my life. For the longest time, my cousin was a ballerina. I may not have recognized the impact that would have at the time but going to all those ballet performances got me cultured. I didn&#8217;t realize how much until just a few years &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/29\/my-musical-evolution-part-31-spotlight-operas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 31 Spotlight Operas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,137,276,452,455,560,592,605],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-beethoven","tag-classical","tag-grieg","tag-offenbach","tag-orff","tag-smetana","tag-strauss","tag-tchaikovsky","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}