The second was to get Hilary named Playboy’s<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Sexiest Babe of Classical Music<\/a>. We even nabbed the\u00a0Opera Chic<\/a><\/em>\u00a0endorsement<\/a> for that one.\u00a0Sadly, our efforts were thwarted by Julia Fischer and one suggestively placed violin. Everyone loves a prop.<\/p>\n Now the time has come for our greatest challenge of all: there’s a baby alpaca out there whose humans want to name her after a violinist<\/a>. Here she is:<\/p>\n Tell me this doesn't look like a "Hilary Hahn"<\/p><\/div>\n Do it like Bastille Day and\u00a0storm the comments section<\/a>.\u00a0It seems the last round of babies were named after Food Network stars<\/a>, so we’re glad that the fine folks at Lavender Fields have turned their attention to the arts. And fyi, Hilary Hahn the Alpaca’s mother is named Emily Bronte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twice before I have called on you, Life’s a Pitches, to get out there and rock the vote. The first to make Hilary\u00a0Gramophone’s\u00a0Artist of the Year, and we did it, Pitches, we did it. Well “we” and a really good Schoenberg album. The second was to get Hilary named Playboy’s\u00a0Sexiest Babe of Classical Music. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696,"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-695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/alpaca.jpg\" "\\"Hilary")
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