{"id":1915,"date":"2021-01-03T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2024-12-19T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:08:22","slug":"a-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some lovely music from L&#8217;Enfance du Christ by Hector Berlioz &#8211; this performance is slower than the tempo marking &#8211; and one of the slowest I could find on YouTube! &#8211; but I think that is a good idea for this song \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Shepherd&#8217;s Farewell comes in Part 2 of the oratorio which depicts the flight into Egypt and is, perhaps, the most famous and well-known part of this opus.  Originally a work for organ it depicts the shepeherd&#8217;s bidding farewell to the baby Jesus as he leave Bethlehem for Egypt.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rpgWhHv2dJw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hector Berlioz : L&#8217;enfance du Christ &#8211; L&#8217;adieu des Bergers<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rpgWhHv2dJw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em> :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terry Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wonderful music, thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some lovely music from L&#8217;Enfance du Christ by Hector Berlioz &#8211; this performance is slower than the tempo marking &#8211; and one of the slowest I could find on YouTube! &#8211; but I think that is a good idea for this song \ud83d\ude03<\/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":[77,105,118],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-choral","tag-religious","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}