{"id":1499,"date":"2006-06-11T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/11\/good-grass\/"},"modified":"2006-06-11T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T18:22:00","slug":"good-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/11\/good-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I joined my Dad for a night at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilesymphony.org\/home.php\">Mobile Symphony<\/a>.  Dad is a huge fan of symphonic music, constant contributer to the local orchestra, and never misses one of the performances on his season tickets.  It&#8217;s easy to be a snob about a symphony from Mobile, but honestly, they do a good job and have a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilesymphony.org\/scott_bio.php\">maestro<\/a> and dedicated, talented operational staff.<\/p>\n<p>One of the organization&#8217;s outreach projects is a composer-in-residency arrangement where three musicians work with the symphony to compose new works that are then premiered (pretty cool!)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yca.org\/bunch.html\">Kenji Bunch<\/a>, one of the composers-in-residence, was featured with his band &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citigrass.com\/\">Citigrass<\/a>&#8221; as part of the night&#8217;s performance, titled: &#8220;A bunch of bluegrass.&#8221;  They were fantastic!  They take a bluegrass spin on many songs and are a great time.  I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluegrassworks.com\/review.php?reviewID=88\">checking them out<\/a> for some seriously fun music.<\/p>\n<p>Memorable moment:  &#8220;We&#8217;re a bluegrass band from New York City.  We do get some funny looks when we tell people where we&#8217;re from, but we figure, if there can be a world class symphony from Mobile, then why not a bluegrass band from New York?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I joined my Dad for a night at the Mobile Symphony. Dad is a huge fan of symphonic music, constant contributer to the local orchestra, and never misses one of the performances on his season tickets. It&#8217;s easy to be a snob about a symphony from Mobile, but honestly, they do a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}