{"id":34117,"date":"2016-02-12T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=34117"},"modified":"2016-02-12T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T21:41:11","slug":"coffee-break-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/02\/12\/coffee-break-7\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | The Mysterious Tearjerker Behind Brahms&#8217; Lullaby (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/ooIbZHs8TE4?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>(<a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#!\/blogs\/2016\/2\/The-heartbreaking-secret-behind-Brahms-Lullaby\">via<\/a>) The story behind &#8220;Brahms&#8217; Lullaby&#8221; is one of the great stories of classical music lore. I won&#8217;t ruin it by telling you now, but the video above tells it\u00a0beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>Brahms&#8217; penned the sleepy-time tune as the fourth lieder to his\u00a0<span class=\"toctext\">Wiegenlied <\/span>Op. 49 in 1868. It has become one of the most recognizable melodies\u00a0in the world. It has become a particular favourite of parents who sing the song to lull their babies to sleep at night.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which is part of a video series with the CBC Radio 2&#8217;s Tom Allen, includes Toronto&#8217;s Gryphon Trio, bassist\u00a0Jim Creeggan and soprano Patricia O&#8217;Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus to the story: &#8220;Why not make a new edition in a minor key for naughty or sick children?&#8221; Brahms said. &#8220;That would be still another way to move copies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? Get our exclusive newsletter\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/app_100265896690345\">here<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind &#8220;Brahms&#8217;s Lullaby&#8221; is one of the great stories of classical music lore. This  must see video tells it beautifully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":34118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,4932],"tags":[5892,5893,1492,5895,5894,4668],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/brahms-hh.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-8Sh","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34124,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117\/revisions\/34124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34117"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}