{"id":36372,"date":"2016-04-22T06:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=36372"},"modified":"2016-04-22T06:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:49:09","slug":"in-memoriam-violinist-pays-tritube-to-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2016\/04\/22\/in-memoriam-violinist-pays-tritube-to-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORIAM | Violinist Pays Tribute to Prince: (1958-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/charlesyangmusic\/videos\/1178443425508383\/\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know you are probably thinking, &#8220;What is a classical music website doing paying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-36106778\" target=\"_blank\">tribute Price<\/a>?&#8221; But for those of us who grew up in the 1970&#8217;s and 80&#8217;s, Prince had a lot to do with it. They called him &#8220;The Mozart of the 80&#8217;s&#8221;. \u00a0In his debut album\u00a0<i>For You <\/i>(1978)<i>,\u00a0<\/i>Prince composed, arranged, produced, and played all 27 instruments on the recording. His music transcended\u00a0genre\u00a0and included elements Pop, Rock, New Wave, R&amp;B, Funk, Blues, and Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>There a spirit innovation and virtuosity in certain musicians that has been shared across the ages, from Baroque to the music of today, and for that, we pay tribute with a video by violinist Charles Yang playing a soaring violin solo in honour of an artist who has left us too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another great tribute of Prince&#8217;s classic <em>Raspberry Beret<\/em> on classical guitar by Joshua Rogers.<\/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\/MCMsAmDYb7U?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><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Follow\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Musical Toronto on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>for the latest classical and opera news, funny stuff, and an insider POV.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violinist Charles Yang pays tribute to Prince, &#8220;The Mozart of the 80&#8217;s&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":36374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5723,41],"tags":[6105,6106],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/Prince-violin-tribute.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-9sE","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372"}],"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=36372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36379,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372\/revisions\/36379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}