{"id":1715,"date":"2020-12-14T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2024-11-21T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T15:35:02","slug":"a-christmas-tale-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-christmas-tale-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Tale In Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few times before I have suggested that it was a case of &#8220;now for something completely different&#8221; in these daily music shares &#8211; well today it really is!!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Monday has become a day for a &#8220;big piece&#8221; &#8211; this is more of a &#8220;concert&#8221; than a &#8220;piece&#8221;. It is, however, full of seasonal music. I first found a snippet of this a few years ago and it was interesting enough to get me to investigate further. Before that I have to admit that I had never heard of the Trans Siberian Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>It became a fixture on my Christmas playlist!!<\/p>\n<p>If you like it you will find even longer &#8220;live&#8221; versions of this basic show as it seems that they tour each year with a version of the show &#8211; described as &#8220;rock operas&#8221;. This one, seemingly, is a recording of a tv special version from 1999.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eAODpLKZULA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trans-Siberian Orchestra : The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eAODpLKZULA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few times before I have suggested that it was a case of &#8220;now for something completely different&#8221; in these daily music shares &#8211; well today it really is!!<\/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":[104,111,118],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-popular","tag-theatre","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","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=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}