{"id":14949,"date":"2020-12-12T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=14949"},"modified":"2020-12-13T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:55:54","slug":"poco-piano-sleepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/12\/poco-piano-sleepy\/","title":{"rendered":"poco piano: sleepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was finals week and I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time to play the piano. I would take breaks from writing my portfolio (9,000 word min), and play a little piano to free up my mind from words and precision and give me some respite from the computer screen. The title of this one is &#8220;Child falling asleep&#8221; by Schumann. It&#8217;s a movement from Kinderszenen, &#8220;childhood scenes&#8221;. I played this throughout the week, just to feel some peace from the flurry of finals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a strange piece. One would think that a child falling asleep would be unfailingly sweet yet it seems rather bittersweet instead, almost troubled. The warm major section in the middle seems like dream, slightly out of reach. It&#8217;s subdued but peaceful and rocks like a cradle through the night.\u00a0 It ends unresolved, as if in mid thought\u2014the child drifts off.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOL61IKAzRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was finals week and I haven&#8217;t had a lot of time to play the piano. I would take breaks from writing my portfolio (9,000 word min), and play a little piano to free up my mind from words and precision and give me some respite from the computer screen. The title of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2225,"featured_media":13999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14952,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14949\/revisions\/14952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}