{"id":1995,"date":"2021-01-11T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:25:06","slug":"a-famous-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-famous-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Famous Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have followed this series of posts will no doubt have noticed a slight bias towards orchestral music with good horn parts from time to time \ud83d\ude02 &#8211; today&#8217;s &#8216;big piece&#8217; is another example of that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I know that my Monday posts have been &#8220;full works&#8221; &#8211; but today I have gone slightly away from that as the &#8220;full work&#8221; is around two and a half hours in length!! This is a suite of ten of the dances from Prokofiev&#8217;s &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221; &#8211; and it doesn&#8217;t take long for the horn section to weigh in!<\/p>\n<p>The featured parts are :<\/p>\n<p>1. Montagues &#038; Capulets 0:00<br \/>\n2. Juliet The Young Girl 5:17<br \/>\n3. Madrigal 9:34<br \/>\n4. Minuet 13:07<br \/>\n5. Masks 16:06<br \/>\n6. Romeo &#038; Juliet 18:10<br \/>\n7. Death of Tybalt 25:56<br \/>\n8. Friar Laurence 30:30<br \/>\n9. Romeo &#038; Juliet : Before Parting 33:27<br \/>\n10. Romeo at Juliet\u2019s Tomb 42:12<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Byzs-zraweg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo and Juliet Suite<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Byzs-zraweg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<label class=\"reveal-btn\" style=\"width: 300px;\" for=\"showhide\">Show Me The TV Programme<\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"showhide\" role=\"button\" type=\"checkbox\" \/>\t <\/p>\n<div id=\"hidden-part\"><center>This was used as the theme for &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221;<\/center>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have followed this series of posts will no doubt have noticed a slight bias towards orchestral music with good horn parts from time to time \ud83d\ude02 &#8211; today&#8217;s &#8216;big piece&#8217; is another example of that.<\/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":[73,92,100],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-ballet","tag-horns","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","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=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}