{"id":3995,"date":"2016-03-22T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2016-03-24T18:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:56:21","slug":"malcolm-sargent-on-vaughan-williams-sixth-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3995","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Sargent on Vaughan Williams&#8217; Sixth Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor Malcolm Sargent on Vaughan Williams&#8217; Sixth Symphony:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A frightening symphony. For a symphony to be frightening is perhaps a good thing. Here we have the complete testament of a man who, in his seventies, looks back on the human sufferings of his time. I never conduct the Sixth without feeling that I am walking across bomb sites. . . . Chaos, despair, desolation and the peace that flows from desolation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles Reid (1968) <em>Malcolm Sargent<\/em>. London: Hamish Hamilton, p.357.<br \/>\n Cited in: Holmes, John (1993) <em>Conductors on Composers.<\/em> Westport: Greenwood, p.195.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conductor Malcolm Sargent on Vaughan Williams&#8217; Sixth Symphony: A frightening symphony. For a symphony to be frightening is perhaps a good thing. Here we have the complete testament of a man who, in his seventies, looks back on the human sufferings of his time. I never conduct the Sixth without feeling that I am walking [&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":[701],"tags":[693,694,665],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-works","tag-malcolm-sargent","tag-sixth-symphony","tag-vaughan-williams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","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=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}