{"id":1583,"date":"2016-01-21T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2016-01-21T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:53:40","slug":"new-four-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/2016\/01\/21\/new-four-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Four Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Chapman, renowned harpsichordist and Turner Sims Fellow, tells us about her latest adventure&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1584\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/peckhamcarpark.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1584\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/peckhamcarpark.jpeg\" alt=\"Jane performing at London Contemporary Music Festival at Peckham car park.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/peckhamcarpark.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/peckhamcarpark-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2016\/01\/peckhamcarpark-700x466.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane performing at London Contemporary Music Festival at Peckham car park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m just about to go on tour with Nigel Kennedy playing his whacky version of the 4 Seasons and other sundries. I&#8217;m doubling on harpsichord and piano, and the score has been translated from figured bass into jazz \u00a0chords. Who knows if Vivaldi was around today, he may have written it that way. Several of the movements launch into Hendrix\/Kennedy tunes, which may make all those traditionalists throw up their hands with horror, but it was \u00a0actually common practice in the baroque and classical period to break up the main concerto or symphony with popular tunes to keep the audience happy. It will certainly keep us on our toes. Speaking of which my main concern is how far I dare go with heels. It doesn&#8217;t make any difference when playing a harpsichord, but a piano with pedals is a different matter. Perhaps I&#8217;ll have more on my mind when rehearsals start\u2026.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245\" style=\"width: 2592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2015\/05\/Jane-Chapman-image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2015\/05\/Jane-Chapman-image.jpeg\" alt=\"Jane performing new repertoire for the harpsichord\" width=\"2592\" height=\"3872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2015\/05\/Jane-Chapman-image.jpeg 2592w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2015\/05\/Jane-Chapman-image-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2015\/05\/Jane-Chapman-image-685x1024.jpeg 685w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/files\/2015\/05\/Jane-Chapman-image-700x1046.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane performing new repertoire for the harpsichord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Chapman, renowned harpsichordist and Turner Sims Fellow, tells us about her latest adventure&#8230; I&#8217;m just about to go on tour with Nigel Kennedy playing his whacky version of the 4 Seasons and other sundries. I&#8217;m doubling on harpsichord and piano, and the score has been translated from figured bass into jazz \u00a0chords. Who knows if Vivaldi was around today, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207,66718],"tags":[1049455,643726,1049453,1049454],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","category-staff","tag-four-seasons","tag-jane-chapman","tag-nigel-kennedy","tag-vivaldi","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YgXZ-px","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}