{"id":1031,"date":"2020-06-22T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:19:49","slug":"a-scottish-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-scottish-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scottish Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to be some music from and inspired by Scotland over the next few days. Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; no bagpipes (yet) &#8211; I will let you in easily.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I played this with the Scottish Universities Orchestra in what was (I am pretty sure) my most northerly concert &#8211; in Elgin. The conductor was Brian Wright (not that one!!). I have linked the video through to the last movement &#8211; there is a great horn tune about three minutes from the end (possibly one of the few bits that sound a bit Scottish!!).<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t probably as well known as his Italian Symphony &#8211; but I think I prefer it.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nR0amzWr0J0&#038;start=1829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Felix Mendelssohn : Symphony No.3 &#8211; 4th Movt.<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nR0amzWr0J0?start=1829\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em> :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recognition at last!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to be some music from and inspired by Scotland over the next few days. Don&#8217;t worry &#8211; no bagpipes (yet) &#8211; I will let you in easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[78,100],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-classical","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}