{"id":12369,"date":"2024-01-01T08:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12369"},"modified":"2024-01-01T09:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:00:54","slug":"rachmaninoff-and-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12369","title":{"rendered":"Rachmaninoff and colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A student of Rachmaninoff, Ruth Slenczynska:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>was practising one of Rachmaninov\u2019s preludes when he asked her to join him at the window. It was springtime in Paris, and the avenues were lined with mimosa trees laden with fluffy, golden blossoms.<br><br>\u201cHe said: \u2018You see that? That\u2019s what you want to bring to your sound \u2013 gold.\u2019 I said: \u2018Show me.\u2019 So he sat down at the piano and put colour into his sound, he made it meaningful. And a little kid can copy anything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<cite>Nadia Khomami, &#8220;Ruth Slenczynska: the pupil of Rachmaninov still releasing music at 97&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, 31 January 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/jan\/30\/ruth-slenczynska-pupil-rachmanivov-still-releasing-music-age-97\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/jan\/30\/ruth-slenczynska-pupil-rachmanivov-still-releasing-music-age-97 (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/jan\/30\/ruth-slenczynska-pupil-rachmanivov-still-releasing-music-age-97<\/a>, (accessed 1 January 2024).  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student of Rachmaninoff, Ruth Slenczynska: was practising one of Rachmaninov\u2019s preludes when he asked her to join him at the window. It was springtime in Paris, and the avenues were lined with mimosa trees laden with fluffy, golden blossoms. \u201cHe said: \u2018You see that? That\u2019s what you want to bring to your sound \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[76,1622],"class_list":["post-12369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-methods","tag-rachmaninoff","tag-tone-colour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12369\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}