{"id":1908,"date":"2009-12-16T17:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2009-12-16T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T01:01:59","slug":"snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/12\/snowfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first snowfall of the season is on the ground. This was the morning view from an upstairs bedroom.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Snowfall%202009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snowfall 2009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/Snowfall 2009-thumb-428x328-12047.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"328\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThat gives me a reason, though none is required, to bring you the original recording of &#8220;Snowfall&#8221; by Claude Thornhill and his orchestra. Thornhill composed and arranged the song. The recording is from 1941, shortly after he formed his band. The photo montage looks as if it could be from the same period.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y-gvX2viaHw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y-gvX2viaHw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>For a brief history and discography of Claude Thornhill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigbandlibrary.com\/claudethornhill.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. &#8220;Snowfall&#8221; and several of the pieces arranged by Gil Evans that led to what we now call the birth of the cool are on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBest-Bands-Claude-Thornhill-Orchestra%2Fdp%2FB000008CEJ%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dmusic%26qid%3D1261011209%26sr%3D1-4&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"> this CD<\/a>. Note that the list price is astronomical but the used copies are bargains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first snowfall of the season is on the ground. This was the morning view from an upstairs bedroom. That gives me a reason, though none is required, to bring you the original recording of &#8220;Snowfall&#8221; by Claude Thornhill and his orchestra. Thornhill composed and arranged the song. The recording is from 1941, shortly after [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}