{"id":46784,"date":"2017-08-18T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=46784"},"modified":"2017-08-18T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T04:38:14","slug":"coffee-break-swiss-pianist-plays-piano-in-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/08\/18\/coffee-break-swiss-pianist-plays-piano-in-mid-air\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK |\u00a0Swiss Pianist Plays Piano In Mid-Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piano playing has reached new heights, literally! As part of this year&#8217;s Contre-Plong\u00e9es Festival in Jaude, France, Alain Roche performed his signature &#8220;Piano Vertical&#8221; act in the town square\u2014hanging over the audience in the sky.<\/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\/ay8c5jlVP7Y?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>Roche conceived the series in 2013, and has brought\u00a0the show to Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France.<\/p>\n<p>Of note that &#8220;Piano Vertical&#8221;\u00a0performances are improvised&#8230; out of thin air.<\/p>\n<h3>Have another COFFEE BREAK\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/category\/coffee-break\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>HERE<\/u><\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, up in the sky! It&#8217;s a bird, it&#8217;s a plane, it&#8217;s&#8230; a pianist hanging vertically with his grand piano and rocking some tunes! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":46785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,4932,47],"tags":[9764,9768,9766,6468,9765,9767],"yst_prominent_words":[13801,7141],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/Piano-Vertical.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-caA","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46784"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46786,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46784\/revisions\/46786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46784"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}