{"id":1539,"date":"2020-10-14T14:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2024-07-08T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T20:06:03","slug":"as-close-to-heaven-as-you-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/as-close-to-heaven-as-you-can-get\/","title":{"rendered":"As Close To Heaven As You Can Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its not Friday &#8211; but it is a reflective piece of music. One of the comments on this video says &#8220;as close to heaven as you can get without actually going there&#8221; &#8211; which sort of sums it up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The mum of a friend passed away this morning and this is a fitting piece of music to mark that.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6-i1ESIRKdA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Faur\u00e9 : Requiem &#8211; In Paradisium<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6-i1ESIRKdA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love the horn parts in the Requiem! And remember playing first when only in my early teens!<\/p>\n<p><strong>George McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed &#8211; although I was a little bit older when I first played it &#8211; unusual concert &#8211; sang in the Vivaldi Gloria in the first half (no horns needed of course) and played the Faure in the second half. I always hesitate to name &#8216;favourite&#8217; music because it is so dependent on context, but the Faure would almost certainly be in my top ten.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carelle Daws<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite pieces of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its not Friday &#8211; but it is a reflective piece of music. One of the comments on this video says &#8220;as close to heaven as you can get without actually going there&#8221; &#8211; which sort of sums it up.<\/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":[77,105],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-choral","tag-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}