{"id":540,"date":"2006-06-21T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2007-02-27T23:30:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:30:31","slug":"high-brow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"High brow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football free day, with a nice relaxing evening listening to Eugene Alcalay on the piano in Egham. The concert was organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmc.org.uk\/\">Egham and District Music Club<\/a>, although I knew of the performer through friends. Myrtle, the two Daves and myself had the pleasure of listening to some piano sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, a Liszt etude and fantasia and Mussorgsky&#8217;s Picture at an Exhibition, all played very energetically with a Bach prelude tagged on the end. It was great just to be able to sit and listen to some live music from across the classical spectrum. Admittedly, I preferred the earlier era music to some of the later stuff, but the quality of the playing couldn&#8217;t be faulted. Of all the pieces, I thought The Great Gate of Kiev at the end of the recital was magnificent and finished off with a very grand majestic flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A football free day, with a nice relaxing evening listening to Eugene Alcalay on the piano in Egham. The concert was organised by Egham and District Music Club, although I knew of the performer through friends. Myrtle, the two Daves and myself had the pleasure of listening to some piano sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven,&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=540\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}