{"id":17694,"date":"2021-10-29T16:54:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=17694"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:54:28","slug":"poco-piano-ravel-la-valse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/10\/29\/poco-piano-ravel-la-valse\/","title":{"rendered":"poco piano: Ravel La Valse"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17694-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ravel-La-Valse-Studioclass-10-27.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ravel-La-Valse-Studioclass-10-27.m4a\">http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Ravel-La-Valse-Studioclass-10-27.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>La Valse:<\/p>\n<p>An impossible piece to play on the piano. This work was first conceived of as a Ballet. It&#8217;s so much a parody of the classic Viennese waltz\u00a0 (think Blue Danube- that piece that plays in Space Odyssey) that it truly embodies it. He wrote it to break to form yet somehow in breaking it, he really found it again.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle, you&#8217;ll hear some WWI bombing and sirens blaring to an almost euphoric insanity.<\/p>\n<p>This piece scares me and I&#8217;m about to play it on Tuesday, wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; La Valse: An impossible piece to play on the piano. This work was first conceived of as a Ballet. It&#8217;s so much a parody of the classic Viennese waltz\u00a0 (think Blue Danube- that piece that plays in Space Odyssey) that it truly embodies it. He wrote it to break to form yet somehow in [&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\/17694"}],"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=17694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17696,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17694\/revisions\/17696"}],"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=17694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}