{"id":4841,"date":"2016-05-03T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T22:25:15","slug":"the-orchestra-as-a-symbol-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"The orchestra as a symbol of unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You see behind me a symphony orchestra.\u00a0 Every single one of the instruments has an entirely different background and history; they come from different places &#8230;; they&#8217;ve had different developments; they sound different&#8230; And so, the next time your soul sings, assailed with some sort of horrid indication that people can&#8217;t get along together, please remember the orchestra which is a very powerful symbol, that the things which unite us are far, far stronger than the things which would seem to keep us apart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David Robertson, American conductor, at the Last Night of the Proms, 12 September 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Cited in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">BBC Music<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Magazine<\/span>, November 2009, p.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You see behind me a symphony orchestra.\u00a0 Every single one of the instruments has an entirely different background and history; they come from different places &#8230;; they&#8217;ve had different developments; they sound different&#8230; And so, the next time your soul sings, assailed with some sort of horrid indication that people can&#8217;t get along together, please [&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":[43],"tags":[1253,1171],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-david-robertson","tag-orchestra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}