{"id":67489,"date":"2014-10-06T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=67489"},"modified":"2014-10-31T05:46:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T04:46:46","slug":"lagq-play-spring-snow-by-gerald-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=67489","title":{"rendered":"LAGQ play Spring Snow by Gerald Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-125487\" alt=\"Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com.c51.previewmysite.eu\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558.jpg 580w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558-128x84.jpg 128w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558-250x165.jpg 250w, http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/WPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Los-Angeles-Guitar-Quartet-thumb-580x385-362558-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This piece is one of a set of three Chinese pieces which the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet asked me to write on hearing the news that they were to visit China in 2008.<br \/>\n&#8220;Spring Snow&#8221; is a traditional pipa solo (the pipa is a plucked instrument which ended up in China, having begun its journey in the Middle East) from the 14th century and is almost monothematic in structure, with an obsessive four bar riff which branches out in many directions later on in the piece.<br \/>\nI have turned it into a chamber work by adding several sections and elongating others as well as introducing a percussive element which is implied in the original. The work requires extensive use of pipa techniques such as tremolo, crossed string percussive effects and heavy string bending.<br \/>\nThe first performance of this piece was dedicated to Prof Chen Zhi of Central Conservatoire, Beijing.<br \/>\nLAGQ have since performed it many times as part of their &#8220;World set&#8221; this season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAXsgvqQxRE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\">Bill Kanengiser has also arranged some of this on solo guitar.<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1516241051944340\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1516241051944340\" target=\"_blank\">See this video by Guy Traviss<\/a><\/strong>, after I worked on the piece with Bill in a spare moment snatched from our busy schedules at Iserlohn 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1516241051944340\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/guytravissjournalism\">Guy Traviss<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece is one of a set of three Chinese pieces which the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet asked me to write on hearing the news that they were to visit China in 2008. &#8220;Spring Snow&#8221; is a traditional pipa solo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=67489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,572,586,11],"tags":[974,258,873,872,850,584,874],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489"}],"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=67489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125488,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67489\/revisions\/125488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}