{"id":449,"date":"2003-02-03T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-03T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2003\/02\/03\/449\/"},"modified":"2003-02-03T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-03T21:37:00","slug":"449","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/449","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> Music I&#8217;m listening to, just now &#8230;.! <\/b><\/p>\n<p>In addition to my usual tastes in music. Like:   Rock, Folk, House &amp; Trance Tunes.  I&#8217;ve been listening to quite a lot of Baroque music from the 18th century.  I am one of Handel and Bach&#8217;s greatest fans. Have been for years, much to the amuzement of friends, but I don&#8217;t care what they think!<\/p>\n<p>Listening to Classic FM last week, I got introduced to a Richard Wagner piece. Not really been interested up to now,  &#8216;large ladies singing in opera&#8217;, I&#8217;ve thought, and I cant stand opera.!!!<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, I think the 8min 14sec of this, has got more momentum than an oil tanker. I find it very affecting.  Turn your stereo right up and  give it a listen, you might do to. <\/p>\n<table width=\"75%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"55%\">  Have made it available on my server from the link, here: <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/tash.dns2go.com\/FTP\/MP3\/Wagner_Siegfried_DeathMarch.mp3\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"> <br \/> Siegfried&#8217;s Death March from G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/MediaPlayer_main.gif?w=640\" border=\"0\"> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td width=\"45%\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/tash.lodge\/Blog_Pix\/wagner.jpg?w=640\">  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It was completed in 1875. Siegfried&#8217;s Death March [from G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung &#8211; Twilight of the gods]  was apparently played at Wagner&#8217;s own funeral in 1883.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Culture, or what!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>[suggestion:  I have just checked, on the playing of MP3 files @ 128kbps from a &#8216;low spec&#8217; computer and it doesn&#8217;t load fast enough to keep up with play.  So, suggest that if this applies to you, then &#8216;right click&#8217; mouse, and save to disc first.  I could make a lower bitrate mp3 file, for streaming, but a) can&#8217;t be fucked, and b). this is a piece of &#8216;great depth&#8217;, so you really do need it at this size] enjoy!<\/i><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music I&#8217;m listening to, just now &#8230;.! In addition to my usual tastes in music. Like: Rock, Folk, House &amp; Trance Tunes. I&#8217;ve been listening to quite a lot of Baroque music from the 18th century. I am one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}