{"id":14376,"date":"2016-10-31T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14376"},"modified":"2016-10-31T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:10:12","slug":"seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/31\/seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times that I wonder if what I do as a professional musician makes a difference. I know that the art that I help to create does make a difference in a larger, 30,000 feet sort of way. Society is better for having artists, musicians, writers. Then I heard this song on Friday night, driving back from an OSO concert in Salem. I sat in my driveway waiting for it to end, as it moved me greatly. I rarely get political \u2013 if you hold this against me, so be it \u2013 but I believe in what this song expresses, and how it is expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Sara Bareilles, and performed by Leslie Odom, Jr. (of <em>Hamilton<\/em> fame), this song\u00a0was commissioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\">This American Life<\/a>\u00a0to imagine what President Obama&#8217;s inner monologue might be in response to the hate and vitriol spewed in this election season. What resulted is a powerful response to the groundswell of white nationalism that has been fanned by the candidacy of Donald J. Trump. Music\u00a0<em>can<\/em> make a difference.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hI8TCA3fJcs?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 allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabmusic.com\">sarabmusic.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leslieodomjr.com\">leslieodomjr.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\">thisamericanlife.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times that I wonder if what I do as a professional musician makes a difference. I know that the art that I help to create does make a difference in a larger, 30,000 feet sort of way. Society is better for having artists, musicians, writers. Then I heard this song on Friday night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[3808,3807,3810,3806,3809],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-video","tag-jr","tag-leslie-odom","tag-president-obama","tag-sara-bareilles","tag-this-american-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6071,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/27\/former-oso-concertmaster-cd-on-sale\/","url_meta":{"origin":14376,"position":0},"title":"former OSO concertmaster cd on sale","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Amy Schwartz Moretti, former concertmaster of the Floriday Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony, and director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University's Townsend School of Music since 2007, has released a new recording on the Sono Luminous label. 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