{"id":1612,"date":"2020-11-09T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2024-07-11T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T21:55:00","slug":"not-a-happy-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/not-a-happy-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Happy Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems the ideal &#8220;big piece&#8221; for this Monday in the &#8216;remembrance season&#8217;. This is not something written specifically for such a purpose &#8211; but it does reflect on the effect of wars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Until this became extremely widely known in the 1990s (largely because of this recording) I hadn&#8217;t heard of G\u00f3recki. In the same way as composers such as Vaughan Williams evoke an &#8216;English&#8217; atmosphere, so for me this is very much a Central European sound.<\/p>\n<p>It is not a &#8216;cheery&#8217; piece of music &#8211; the title &#8220;Symphony of Sorrowful Songs&#8221; sort of gives that away &#8211; but it does contain a lot of lovely moments &#8211; and ultimately it leaves a positive feeling.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/87DJF1_vwQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henryk G\u00f3recki : Symphony of Sorrowful Songs<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87DJF1_vwQA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems the ideal &#8220;big piece&#8221; for this Monday in the &#8216;remembrance season&#8217;. This is not something written specifically for such a purpose &#8211; but it does reflect on the effect of wars.<\/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":[100,114],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral","tag-vocal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","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=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}