{"id":221,"date":"2013-07-03T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=221"},"modified":"2013-08-26T06:58:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:58:37","slug":"spectral-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Spectral Dreams : Concerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Performance at GFA Louisville Kentucky on Sunday!<br \/>\nTantalus quartet and Gerald Garcia with the GFA orchestra<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkHPuZbNwoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\"><b>Concerto for Guitar Quartet and Guitar Orchestra<\/b>\u00a0(&#8220;Spectral\u00a0Dreams&#8221;)\u00a0by Gerald Garcia &#8211; World Premiere<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01.<i>Traum Trauermarsch (in memoriam Evan Crawford)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02.\u00a0<i>Archipelago (in memoriam Arthur Garcia)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">Performed by the Tantalus Quartet and GFA Guitar Orchestra for whom it was written.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0<i>The piece came together very quickly (3-4 weeks)\u00a0and is (I only realised on completion) in memory of a friend who died very recently (a guitarist and teacher, Evan Crawford). It is also a tribute to my father (Arthur Garcia), who died 2 years ago and the power of the human spirit to find joy despite grief and loss. The two movements are based on the initials EC and AG in various guises! The first movement starts with an (in)famous high tremolo E which Evan uses in his popular arrangement of Borodin&#8217;s &#8220;In the Steppes of Central Asia&#8221; &#8211; all this was unconscious when the piece came together. &#8220;Archipelago&#8221; refers to the Cape Verde and Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa where I was when the music came to me. It is dedicated to the Tantalus Quartet and the wonderful enterprise that is the GFA.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Performance at GFA Louisville Kentucky on Sunday! Tantalus quartet and Gerald Garcia with the GFA orchestra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,77,3],"tags":[21,69,35,64,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}