{"id":7571,"date":"2012-05-08T21:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7571"},"modified":"2012-05-08T21:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:29:43","slug":"sibelius-on-sibelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/08\/sibelius-on-sibelius\/","title":{"rendered":"sibelius on sibelius"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If someone writes about my music and finds, let us say, a feeling of nature in it, all well and good. Let him say that, as long as we have it clear within ourselves, we do not become a part of the music&#8217;s innermost sound and sense through analysis &#8230; Compositions are like butterflies. Touch them even once and the dust of hue is gone. They can, of course, still fly, but are nowhere as beautiful &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jean Sibelius<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone writes about my music and finds, let us say, a feeling of nature in it, all well and good. Let him say that, as long as we have it clear within ourselves, we do not become a part of the music&#8217;s innermost sound and sense through analysis &#8230; Compositions are like butterflies. Touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Y7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7070,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/15\/sibelius-eighth-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":7571,"position":0},"title":"sibelius&#8217; eighth symphony?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Ross writes about a musicologist in Finland who thinks they have found sketches and other materials that might have eventually turned into Sibelius' Eighth Symphony. 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