{"id":395,"date":"2014-02-28T04:51:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2020-03-16T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T17:36:07","slug":"brahms-johannes-serenade-no-1-arr-alan-boustead-for-nonet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=395","title":{"rendered":"Brahms, Johannes: Op. 11, Serenade No. 1 (arr. Alan Boustead for Nonet)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Something called a&nbsp;<i>divertimento<\/i>, whatever it may be, ought not to be a heavy thing.&nbsp; And Johannes Brahms, whatever his virtues, did write a good deal of music which can become heavy \u2013 sometimes for good reasons, and sometimes not.&nbsp; Charles Ives remarks on this in his&nbsp;<i>Essays before a Sonata<\/i>:<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div><i>To think hard and deeply and to say what is thought, regardless of consequences, may produce a first impression, either of great translucence, or of great muddiness, but in the latter there may be hidden possibilities. Some accuse Brahms&#8217; orchestration of being muddy. This may be a good name for a first impression of it. But if it should seem less so, he might not be saying what he thought.<\/i><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div>Recordings and performances of Brahms are often judged on whether they can avoid falling into polyrhythmical webs and bass-heavy pits \u2013 traps set unintentionally by a composer who seriously intended, as Ives notes, to &#8216;say what he thought&#8217;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something called a&nbsp;divertimento, whatever it may be, ought not to be a heavy thing.&nbsp; And Johannes Brahms, whatever his virtues, did write a good deal of music which can become heavy \u2013 sometimes for good reasons, and sometimes not.&nbsp; Charles Ives remarks on this in his&nbsp;Essays before a Sonata: To think hard and deeply and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/1304"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}