{"id":154,"date":"2008-12-08T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-12-08T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T10:30:09","slug":"happy_birthday_jean_sibelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/12\/happy_birthday_jean_sibelius\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Jean Sibelius!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jean-Sibelius-Birthday.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Jean-Sibelius-Birthday.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" height=\"338\" width=\"250\" \/><\/span>The venerable Jean Sibelius would have turned 143 years-young on this cold day of 8 December. Birthday wishes &#8211; what I&#8217;ve been told is her &#8220;best reference to the final movement of the Sibelius concerto&#8221; &#8211; from Hilary Hahn can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/hilaryhahnvideos\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say for sure, but I&#8217;m fairly to moderately certain that all Jean wants for his birthday is for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.deutschegrammophon.com\/special\/?ID=hahn-sibelius-schoenberg\">Violin Concertos of Schoenberg and Sibelius on performed by Hilary Hahn released on Deutsche Grammophon<\/a> to win two (2) Grammy Awards. Don&#8217;t quote me on that, though; he could very well want something entirely different. <\/p>\n<p>Now, if his relatives surface and send me family birthday party photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/09\/the-schoenbergs-of-la.html\">like Larry and Randy Schoenberg did<\/a>, free S\/S discs for all! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable Jean Sibelius would have turned 143 years-young on this cold day of 8 December. Birthday wishes &#8211; what I&#8217;ve been told is her &#8220;best reference to the final movement of the Sibelius concerto&#8221; &#8211; from Hilary Hahn can be found here. I can&#8217;t say for sure, but I&#8217;m fairly to moderately certain that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}