{"id":5056,"date":"2016-06-15T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2016-06-15T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:49:26","slug":"gershwins-playing-and-sense-of-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5056","title":{"rendered":"Gershwin&#8217;s playing (and sense of humour)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The composer Burton Lane describes George Gershwin&#8217;s playing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You could feel the electricity going through the room when he played. \u00a0He could transpose into any key with the greatest of ease. \u00a0He had total command of what he was doing. \u00a0Musical surprises, unusual changes of keys. \u00a0He was one of the few composers who had a real sense of humor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cited in: Greenberg, Rodney (2008) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">George Gershwin<\/span>. \u00a0New York: Phaidon Press, p.47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The composer Burton Lane describes George Gershwin&#8217;s playing: You could feel the electricity going through the room when he played. \u00a0He could transpose into any key with the greatest of ease. \u00a0He had total command of what he was doing. \u00a0Musical surprises, unusual changes of keys. \u00a0He was one of the few composers who had [&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":[40],"tags":[994],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-george-gershwin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}