{"id":587,"date":"2011-11-27T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T07:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=587"},"modified":"2015-04-09T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T07:45:22","slug":"metamorphosis-1-a-duet-for-three-ghostly-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/metamorphosis-1-a-duet-for-three-ghostly-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis 1 (A Duet for Three Ghostly Peters)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">I first heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipglass.com\/\">Philip Glass<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/peterdaley-20\/detail\/B0000026Y4\">&#8220;Metamorphosis 1&#8221;<\/a> on a season 2 episode of <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> in a rare use of music not by series composer <a href=\"bearmccreary.com\/blog\/\">Bear McCreary<\/a>. I\u2019m not sure what sparked that decision, but I&#8217;m glad it was made as it introduced me to Philip Glass. I had heard the name before and seen it on numerous CD covers while browsing CD shops back in the day, but I never ventured to buy one. I fell in love with the piece immediately, captivated by its haunting minor tone. It is beautiful, but it\u2019s a sad reflective beauty devoid of joy or happiness. Delicious!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rgFGZmWKLaU\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I came across the sheet music and made a note to myself to try play it one day. <!--more-->That day arrived a few weeks ago, and I was quite surprised by its simplicity. Happily, my beginner piano fingers had no trouble finding the right notes. Coordination between the hands would take a little longer, but after just twenty minutes, I had it memorized and was on my way to mastering it to the fullest extent of my immature skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard Philip Glass\u2019 &#8220;Metamorphosis 1&#8221; on a season 2 episode of Battlestar Galactica in a rare use of music not by series composer Bear McCreary. I\u2019m not sure &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,22,24,54,25],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-music","tag-33","tag-guitar","tag-peters-music-videos","tag-philip-glass","tag-piano","post_format-post-format-video"],"views":7434,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}