{"id":2435,"date":"2012-03-21T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2012-03-21T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:47:21","slug":"video-lara-st-john-and-great-lakes-swimmers-mash-up-j-s-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/03\/21\/video-lara-st-john-and-great-lakes-swimmers-mash-up-j-s-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Lara St. John and Great Lake Swimmers mash up J.S. Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jsbach.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2437\" title=\"jsbach\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/jsbach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/jsbach.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/jsbach-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it great that the spring solstice coincides with the birthday of J.S. Bach,\u00a0 327 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>How much other music is as endlessly versatile as Bach&#8217;s, which has survived the Stokowskian Symphony of 1,000 steamroller, getting hooked on Disco, being run through Moog synthesizers, and blithely do-wopped by the Swingles Singers.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are several new and notable pure-Bach discs just out, which I have to listen to a bit more before I can review.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the 21st century mashup spirit, here is violinist Lara St. John and the Great Lake Swimmers with <em>Bach&#8217;s Partita No. 1<\/em> in B minor BWV 1002 by way of Penguin Cafe&#8217;s <em>Music for a Found Harmonium<\/em> at the Grand Theatre in London, Ont., courtesy of CBC&#8217;s <em>Q<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qO8-qTEz0zk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it great that the spring solstice coincides with the birthday of J.S. Bach,\u00a0 327 years ago? How much other music is as endlessly versatile as Bach&#8217;s, which has survived the Stokowskian Symphony of 1,000 steamroller, getting hooked on Disco, being run through Moog synthesizers, and blithely do-wopped by the Swingles Singers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,27,36,42,58,66,68],"tags":[6450,128,1479,1653,1910,2595,2726,3498],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/03\/jsbach.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-Dh","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}