{"id":390,"date":"2016-01-14T13:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/szsolomon.com\/percdb\/?p=390"},"modified":"2016-01-15T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:40:43","slug":"psathas-nocturnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/psathas-nocturnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Psathas &#8211; Nocturnes"},"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>John Psathas<\/p>\n<p>Nocturnes<\/p>\n<p>Number of percussion players: 1 or 2<\/p>\n<p>Total number of players: Soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, and percussion (bass drum, suspended cymbal, wind chimes, tom-toms, congas, kick drum)<\/p>\n<p>Approximate time: 10\u2019 00\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Description:<\/p>\n<p>The composer writes: \u2018These three nocturnes express some of the many different impressions I have of what \u201cnight-music\u201d can be. The first is a strange, unsettled lullaby leading seamlessly into sleep and the unpredictable world of dreams. The second represents night as a time of quiet yet intense and focused energy, while the third piece is more light-hearted and has the feeling of release and recreation that can be experienced at the twilight end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Composing is often a very visual experience for me and when writing these three piece I found myself imagining tropical evenings, warm breezes, fading light, and the sense of the ocean nearby.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Annotated by Nicholas White<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Psathas Nocturnes Number of percussion players: 1 or 2 Total number of players: Soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, and percussion (bass drum, suspended cymbal, wind chimes, tom-toms, congas, kick drum) Approximate time: 10\u2019 00\u201d Description: The composer writes: \u2018These three nocturnes express some of the many different impressions I have of what \u201cnight-music\u201d [&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\/390"}],"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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}