{"id":254,"date":"2009-05-30T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:28:31","slug":"intonation-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/intonation-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"INTONATION OPTIONAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Some music school grads are prima donnas. <\/strong><\/span> The worst are violinists.\u00a0 They&#8217;re very concerned about intonation. \u00a0When I played in a trio with a couple Cleveland Orchestra members, I kept a tuner on my music stand the whole time.\u00a0 I tuned each note as I played.\u00a0 I was scared.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a little intonation problem if you&#8217;re playing klezmer music?\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>These music school grads, they put<\/strong><\/span> in 10,000 hours in little practice rooms and want some respect for their prison time.<\/p>\n<p>In Yiddishe Cup we occasionally get into squabbles on the bandstand about intonation, but nobody bugs me about being flat or sharp because I&#8217;m writing the checks.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Shabbat shalom<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">Tomorrow:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #339966;\">HOLD THE SUNRISE . . . If you play &#8220;Sunrise,&#8221; you&#8217;re sunset.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some music school grads are prima donnas. The worst are violinists.\u00a0 They&#8217;re very concerned about intonation. \u00a0When I played in a trio with a couple Cleveland Orchestra members, I kept a tuner on my music stand the whole time.\u00a0 I tuned each note as I played.\u00a0 I was scared. What&#8217;s a little intonation problem if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}