{"id":194,"date":"2007-03-27T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/27\/at-the-school-jumble-sale\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T12:07:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:07:28","slug":"at-the-school-jumble-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/03\/27\/at-the-school-jumble-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"at the school jumble sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I helped to run the bookstall at the school jumble sale.  Among all the chick-lit, thrillers, airport reading and the like there was just one book relating to music: the Cambridge Opera Guide to <em>Wozzeck<\/em>.  As I withdrew this from sale with (almost certainly unnecessary) haste to add to my own pile of purchases, I reflected: why is it that Berg&#8217;s music seems to follow me around wherever I go and whatever I do?  Or is it just that one notices such occurrences if they involve a favourite composer?  Or is it that the guide to this particular opera sold relatively well because it&#8217;s thought to need more explanation than others, and also the guide is more likely to be discarded later?<br \/>\n[June 2013: something similar happened at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/06\/15\/a-family-night-out-at-the-opera\/\">church f&ecirc;te<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I have been learning Haydn&#8217;s <em>The Spirit&#8217;s Song<\/em>.  This is clearly a close relative of his great piano <em>Variations<\/em> in F minor, written a year or two earlier, and not just because of the key (I think this is the original one).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I helped to run the bookstall at the school jumble sale. Among all the chick-lit, thrillers, airport reading and the like there was just one book relating to music: the Cambridge Opera Guide to Wozzeck. As I withdrew &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/03\/27\/at-the-school-jumble-sale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,18],"tags":[132,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}