{"id":942,"date":"2009-09-09T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=942"},"modified":"2010-05-16T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:00:10","slug":"a-free-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/09\/a-free-hour.html","title":{"rendered":"A Free Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the minimalist binge (cramming myself with lots and lots of very little), I&#8217;ve been listening tonight to a new performance of Tom Johnson&#8217;s insidious <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">An Hour For Piano<\/span> by R. Andrew Lee.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/andy-lee.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/an-hour-for-piano-by-tom-johns-1.html\">available for download on Lee&#8217;s blog<\/a>, in either mp3 or (gasp) wav format.  Thoughtfully, he reprints the program notes, which are meant to be read while listening to the music. If you&#8217;re one of those people who can&#8217;t help reading the notes while listening, you may think this is a boon.  Remember, I said the piece is insidious.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fine performance, never mind Lee&#8217;s perfectionist quibble that he ran twenty seconds over the one-hour time limit.  He got closer than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramonline.org\/albums\/tom-johnson-an-hour-for-piano\">Frederic Rzewski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/rgable.typepad.com\/aworks\/2009\/08\/image-via-wikipedia----just-outside-posts-about-about-a-new-tom-johnson-recording-and-says-he-loves-his-an-hour-for-piano-i.html\">aworks<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the minimalist binge (cramming myself with lots and lots of very little), I&#8217;ve been listening tonight to a new performance of Tom Johnson&#8217;s insidious An Hour For Piano by R. Andrew Lee. It&#8217;s available for download on Lee&#8217;s blog, in either mp3 or (gasp) wav format. Thoughtfully, he reprints the program notes, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}