{"id":558,"date":"2006-07-23T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T12:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2007-02-27T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T23:22:23","slug":"janacek-mozart-and-dvorak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Janacek, Mozart and Dvorak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning slightly earlier than usual &#8211; for a Saturday anyway &#8211; it had rained during the night and now it was really, really warm and humid! Ah well, good thing I guess, as it meant I got up, did my food shopping and then trundled into London with Sam to do some wandering. The plan was to meet up with others later on to go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/proms\/\">Proms<\/a> concert at the Royal Albert Hall, and it seemed a long way to go just for a concert, so I thought I&#8217;d make a day of it.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon was spent attempting to do lots of little chores in Chinatown, some of which I succeeded and some just fell flat on its face. The remainder of the time was spent perusing masterpieces in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/\">National Gallery<\/a> in Trafalgar Square. I hadn&#8217;t realised so many works of art were on display there!<\/p>\n<p>A quick hop on the tube and we were sitting under the Albert Memorial, with the others, eating sandwiches before the concert.<\/p>\n<p>The concert itself was superb, although I wasn&#8217;t keen on the Janacek &#8211; my favourite being the Mozart Piano Concerto in E flat for two pianos, followed by the Dvorak Symphony no. 7. I was surprised that some preferred the Janacek over the Mozart. I guess I&#8217;m just a fan of Baroque\/early classical music. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning slightly earlier than usual &#8211; for a Saturday anyway &#8211; it had rained during the night and now it was really, really warm and humid! Ah well, good thing I guess, as it meant I got up, did my food shopping and then trundled into London with Sam to do some&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=558\">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-558","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\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}