{"id":218,"date":"2016-01-14T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:48","slug":"gubaidulina-in-the-beginning-there-was-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/gubaidulina-in-the-beginning-there-was-rhythm\/","title":{"rendered":"Gubaidulina &#8211; in the beginning there was rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Sofia Gubaidulina<\/p>\n<p><em>in the beginning there was rhythm <\/em>(1984)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>14 minutes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>7 players:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. timpani soloist (32&#8243;, 29&#8243;, 23&#8243; and 20&#8243; drums) with woodblock<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. 3. and 4. each with one timpano (32&#8243;, 29&#8243;, 26&#8243;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5. and 6. share a 4 octave marimba, played while wearing jingles on their wrists, and each have a snare drum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>7. glockenspiel and templeblock<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Program note:<\/p>\n<p><em>in the beginning there was rhythm<\/em> is a solemn work, evocative of prehistoric ritual ceremony.\u00a0 In this ceremony, pleading speech-song-like melodies are preached by a shaman (the solo timpanist) and answered by his disciples (a congregation of three timpanists, each with one drum). The service mounts, eventually summoning the simmering appearance of their deities (glockenspiel and marimba played with jingles on the players wrists).\u00a0 Humbled, our leader finishes his sermon with single woodblock, calling one final procession.\u00a0 &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Solomon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Gubaidulina in the beginning there was rhythm (1984) &nbsp; 14 minutes &nbsp; 7 players: &nbsp; 1. timpani soloist (32&#8243;, 29&#8243;, 23&#8243; and 20&#8243; drums) with woodblock &nbsp; 2. 3. and 4. each with one timpano (32&#8243;, 29&#8243;, 26&#8243;) &nbsp; 5. and 6. share a 4 octave marimba, played while wearing jingles on their wrists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}