{"id":24196,"date":"2023-02-04T02:20:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T08:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=24196"},"modified":"2023-02-04T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T08:57:12","slug":"the-exquisite-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/the-exquisite-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exquisite Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ben Bliss, Tenor - &#039;L&#039;heure Exquise&#039; by Reynaldo Hahn (song only)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pl22CLqxwus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am listening to a different piece of classical music each day as I read the book, Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day by Clemency Burton-Hill. Once I read the few paragraphs for the day, I go on YouTube to search for the piece. I have seen how much the artists matter! Interpretations of the same song are often very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been doing this for a month now, and I look forward to a new piece each morning. I don&#8217;t enjoy every song, but I write simple words in a day planner to describe the music of the day: pensive, incessant, folksy, triumphant&#8230; and try to imagine when the music would be most appreciated. I might write that one song would be comforting to listen to when sad, or another captures the joy of a beginning or the tug of a goodbye. I also like to compare different recordings and choose a favorite artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The piece I include here today has been playing on repeat all week since Richard and I discovered this recording together. More than a word that best describes this song, its mood and expression, I mark the person I discovered it with. To me, this song will always be about a sweet day spent with Richard in our 28th year of marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am listening to a different piece of classical music each day as I read the book, Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day by Clemency Burton-Hill. Once I read the few paragraphs for the day, I go on YouTube to search for the piece. I have seen how much the artists &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/the-exquisite-hour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Exquisite Hour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-marriage","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24196"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24211,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24196\/revisions\/24211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}