{"id":98,"date":"2007-02-26T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T13:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-02-26T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T13:21:34","slug":"can-you-be-offended-by-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Can you be offended by classical music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, they say you need to be cultured to appreciate classical music. But then think of the irony: you also have to be highly &#8220;cultured&#8221; to be offended by classical music. For example, if you spend this Friday night at the recital studio for this concert:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"e-flyer_0.jpg\" id=\"image96\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/e-flyer_0.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>you&#8217;ll hardly get &#8220;offended&#8221; as everything will sound just like every other &#8220;classical music&#8221; concert you&#8217;ve been to. But then if you read a bit and &#8220;culture&#8221; yourself before attending the concert, you&#8217;ll see that it&#8217;s possible to &#8220;hint&#8221; stuff, like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._45_(Haydn)\">working long hours<\/a> (as in Farewell), or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicwithease.com\/barber-seville-synopsis.html\">I&#8217;m better than you<\/a> (as in Barber), or in the case of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pulcinella\">Pulcinella<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/9b\/Polichinelle_ca_1650.jpg\/250px-Polichinelle_ca_1650.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boosey.com\/pages\/cr\/catalogue\/cat_detail.asp?musicid=3471\">taking your boss&#8217;s request too emotionally<\/a> (to the extend of creating a new strain in your industry, e.g. neo-classicism).<\/p>\n<p>If this is not your stuff and you simply want to bring your wife, husband, boy friend or girl friend to a lot a lot of aria, then pay more for:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"verdi_pix_title_3preview.jpg\" id=\"image97\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/verdi_pix_title_3preview.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>and get your entire year&#8217;s dose of Verdi. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nConcert details: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tpo.org.sg\/whats_new\/the_offended_18th_century\">The Offended 18th Century<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporeopera.com.sg\/edm\/200702\/operanotes.html\">Viva Verdi<\/a>. Get your tickets from SISTIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, they say you need to be cultured to appreciate classical music. But then think of the irony:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-singapore","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}