{"id":1588,"date":"2020-11-02T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2024-07-10T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:54:42","slug":"number-twelve-of-fifteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/number-twelve-of-fifteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Twelve of Fifteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many composers who had eventful lives &#8211; it seems that it was rarely an easy life.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shostakovich certainly belongs to that group (if you haven&#8217;t read it his &#8220;memoirs&#8221; &#8211; Testimony &#8211; makes for fascinating reading &#8211; although I have put the word memoirs in quotes as there is a degree of doubt about how accurate a representation it is).<\/p>\n<p>His symphonies are each quite unique &#8211; although it is always clear that they belong to him! There are a few of the fifteen that I particularly enjoy &#8211; this is one of them &#8211; great horn part, great fun to play.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q3ty-Y3E1FA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dmitri  Shostakovich :  Symphony No.12 <\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3ty-Y3E1FA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many composers who had eventful lives &#8211; it seems that it was rarely an easy life.<\/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":[100],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}