{"id":1997,"date":"2021-01-12T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:41:56","slug":"another-rj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/another-rj\/","title":{"rendered":"Another R&#038;J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stick with the same subject matter for today&#8217;s music &#8211; here is Tchaikovsky&#8217;s vision of Romeo and Juliet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My &#8216;older&#8217; readers may remember a BBC programme &#8220;Face The Music&#8221;. I have a number of memories of that programme, one of which involves this music. It had a variety of questions about music &#8211; was informative, entertaining and often very funny. This was definitely in the funny category.<\/p>\n<p>The guests were challenged to accurately perform the cymbal part for a few bars (it starts soon after 13 minutes on this video) &#8211; a challenge that, if I remember correctly, they were not entirely successful in meeting!! \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n<p>I have chosen this performance to share because it does have the best view of the cymbal player at that point in the music that I could find!<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZR1GRaerPLQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Romeo and Juliet Suite<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZR1GRaerPLQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em> :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terry Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was a wee while ago, George. Is that the one with the &#8216;dummy keyboard&#8217;??<\/p>\n<p><strong>George McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s correct! Good programme  can&#8217;t seem to find much of it online though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stick with the same subject matter for today&#8217;s music &#8211; here is Tchaikovsky&#8217;s vision of Romeo and Juliet.<\/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-1997","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\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}