{"id":3145,"date":"2009-09-20T09:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2009-09-20T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:03:55","slug":"jennifer-higdon-the-beatles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/20\/jennifer-higdon-the-beatles\/","title":{"rendered":"jennifer higdon & the beatles"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting article<\/a> from David Patrick Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer concerning composer Jennifer Higdon and her take on the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Gutsy writing . . . inventive use of color . . . unusual instruments . . . still pretty unique.”<\/p>\n

Those musical descriptions from Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon suggest a critique of Berlioz, Debussy, or some other classical composer with Mount Rushmore status.<\/p>\n

But no – she was listening to the latest super-digitized incarnation of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>, an early, crucial musical influence and one that explains much about the music she composes for America’s great symphony orchestras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting article from David Patrick Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer concerning composer Jennifer Higdon and her take on the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. ‘Gutsy writing . . . inventive use of color . . . unusual instruments . . . still pretty unique.” Those musical descriptions from Philadelphia composer Jennifer […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,167,183,137],"tags":[1861],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-composition","category-contemporary","category-popular-music-music","tag-jennifer-hidgon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-OJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":528,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/10\/interview-with-jennifer-higdon\/","url_meta":{"origin":3145,"position":0},"title":"interview with jennifer higdon","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you who don't know Jennifer Higdon, she's one of America's leading composers. 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