{"id":3603,"date":"2017-06-18T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2017-06-18T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:17:01","slug":"jan-swafford-and-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/06\/jan-swafford-and-classical-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Jan Swafford and Classical Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>YOUR humble blogger is a longtime fan of the classical music writer Jan Swafford, ever since friend gave me his lucid and wise Vintage guide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/51sbd6hrS7L._SX338_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/51sbd6hrS7L._SX338_BO1204203200_-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/51sbd6hrS7L._SX338_BO1204203200_-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/51sbd6hrS7L._SX338_BO1204203200_.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a>Swafford, who&#8217;s known for biographies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Ives, has just released <em>The Language of the Spirit<\/em>, an introduction of a different sort. I corresponded with the author for a piece on the LA Review of Books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/the-most-intimate-symbol-jan-swafford-on-classical-music\/\">Here<\/a> is my piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] YOUR humble blogger is a longtime fan of the classical music writer Jan Swafford, ever since friend gave me his lucid and wise Vintage guide. Swafford, who&#8217;s known for biographies of Beethoven, Brahms, and Ives, has just released The Language of the Spirit, an introduction of a different sort. I corresponded with the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[807,808],"class_list":{"0":"post-3603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"tag-classical-music","8":"tag-jan-swafford","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}