{"id":16657,"date":"2021-04-24T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16657"},"modified":"2021-04-24T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T21:15:29","slug":"poco-piano-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/04\/24\/poco-piano-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"poco piano: summer plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zbr7HYt1Q9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the semester is coming to a close, I&#8217;ve been thinking about what I want to play in the summer. It&#8217;s a strange time of year, days the never end; lazy and unkempt days, unstructured and amorphous. I&#8217;ll be staying in Ann Arbor for some of it, to soak in the sunlight and float along the Huron. I think I will give myself a week of break to do whatever my heart desires. No plans, just do whatever pops into my mind- roll around in the grass of the Arb or make some smores with some friends. I think I&#8217;ll live life at large and really savor everything in life. The bird songs I hear when I first crack open my eyes, the quiet rustling of trees as I lay engrossed in a book, the simple pleasure of running in the rain&#8211; careless and spontaneous.<\/p>\n<p>Then I&#8217;ll make a schedule for practicing- work hard and perhaps prepare for a recital and competition.<\/p>\n<p>This recording above is a competition I decided to do on a whim last summer. It&#8217;s a new prelude composed for this competition and we just had to learn it and record it for the composer to hear. It was a strange experience, without any guideposts to listen to or reference and I truly had to study the score to see what the composer really wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the semester is coming to a close, I&#8217;ve been thinking about what I want to play in the summer. It&#8217;s a strange time of year, days the never end; lazy and unkempt days, unstructured and amorphous. I&#8217;ll be staying in Ann Arbor for some of it, to soak in the sunlight and float along [&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\/16657"}],"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=16657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17028,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16657\/revisions\/17028"}],"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=16657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}