{"id":7499,"date":"2012-04-11T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2013-02-07T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T05:05:02","slug":"is-music-really-just-a-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/11\/is-music-really-just-a-luxury\/","title":{"rendered":"is music really just a luxury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, even we professional musicians begin to believe the sentiment that music is &#8216;just&#8217; a luxury for people with too much disposable income. We forget that music is an activity that we have partaken in for as long as there have been humans (witness the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/25\/science\/25flute.html\" target=\"_blank\">ancient bone flute<\/a> dating from over 35,000 years ago), and that is serves a deeply seated need to connect with something that transcends our everyday mortal existence in a way that even religion cannot even touch. Please, take a few minutes and watch this remarkable video excerpt from an upcoming documentary (opening in NYC this month) called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/?p=29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alive Inside<\/em><\/a>:<\/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\/NKDXuCE7LeQ?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, even we professional musicians begin to believe the sentiment that music is &#8216;just&#8217; a luxury for people with too much disposable income. We forget that music is an activity that we have partaken in for as long as there have been humans (witness the ancient bone flute dating from over 35,000 years ago), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,115,13,1583],"tags":[3018,3019,3669],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","category-video","category-vocal-music","tag-alive-inside","tag-documentary","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1WX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1373,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/02\/baiba-skride-documentary\/","url_meta":{"origin":7499,"position":0},"title":"baiba skride documentary","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The German broadcasting network Deutsche Welle has an excellent documentary on the supremely talented Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, who is making her OSO debut this weekend. 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