{"id":1174,"date":"2009-02-27T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2018-08-10T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T04:31:37","slug":"a-pleasure-awaits-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"A Pleasure Awaits Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8105\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8105\" class=\"wp-image-8105 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/09-02-21-LISTN-A-Pleasure-Awaits-Me-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The composer scowls menacingly over little children playing in Toronto's Sibelius Park\" width=\"157\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/09-02-21-LISTN-A-Pleasure-Awaits-Me-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/09-02-21-LISTN-A-Pleasure-Awaits-Me-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/09-02-21-LISTN-A-Pleasure-Awaits-Me-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The com\u00adpos\u00ader scowls men\u00adac\u00ading\u00adly over lit\u00adtle chil\u00addren play\u00ading in Toron\u00adto\u2019s Sibelius Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hur\u00adray!&nbsp;As my read\u00aders will know from con\u00adstant ref\u00ader\u00adences, I\u2019m an ardent Sibelian\u2026 giv\u00aden to mak\u00ading pil\u00adgrim\u00adages to his stat\u00adue in Toron\u00adto\u2019s Sibelius Park, for exam\u00adple. The Toron\u00adto Sym\u00adpho\u00adny Orches\u00adtra will be per\u00adform\u00ading all sev\u00aden Sibelius sym\u00adphonies, in sequence, in their com\u00ading sea\u00adson, under guest con\u00adduc\u00adtor Thomas Daus\u00adgaard.&nbsp;Daus\u00adgaard is a Dan\u00adish con\u00adduc\u00adtor with a good rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion, but I\u2019ve heard none of his record\u00adings.&nbsp;The tests will be how he han\u00addles the finale of the Fifth Sym\u00adpho\u00adny\u2026 the last bars must be timed per\u00adfect\u00adly to get the effect I think Sibelius was after, and many of the record\u00adings I have screw it up com\u00adplete\u00adly.&nbsp;But most of all, it\u2019s the sub\u00adtleties of the grim and ambigu\u00adous Fourth Sym\u00adpho\u00adny that mat\u00adter to me.&nbsp;Only one mod\u00adern con\u00adduc\u00adtor, Col\u00adin Davis, sat\u00adis\u00adfies me for this sym\u00adpho\u00adny.&nbsp;If Daus\u00adgaard comes even close I\u2019ll be in ecstasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hur\u00adray!&nbsp;As my read\u00aders will know from con\u00adstant ref\u00ader\u00adences, I\u2019m an ardent Sibelian\u2026 giv\u00aden to mak\u00ading pil\u00adgrim\u00adages to his stat\u00adue in Toron\u00adto\u2019s Sibelius Park, for exam\u00adple. The Toron\u00adto Sym\u00adpho\u00adny Orches\u00adtra will be per\u00adform\u00ading all sev\u00aden Sibelius sym\u00adphonies, in sequence, in&nbsp;their&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1174\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ar-blog-2009","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}