{"id":3045,"date":"2011-10-31T00:30:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2011-10-31T08:37:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T15:37:05","slug":"other-matters-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/10\/other-matters-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: BOO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the official 2011 <em>Rifftides<\/em> Halloween jack-o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lantern, designed to scare trick or treaters out of their costumes and away from <em>RT<\/em> world headquarters. In case that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work, several pounds of cheap candy are standing by.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-Pumpkin-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-Pumpkin-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2011 Pumpkin 2\" width=\"400\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-Pumpkin-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-Pumpkin-2-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt may be that jazz musicians have recorded music with a Halloween theme  worth relaying to the <em>Rifftides<\/em> readership. If so, I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find it. However, by merest chance, the night before Halloween I came across video of the piano team of Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe. The clip begins with a tour of the Steinway piano factory before we see and hear Anderson and Roe in a four-hands performance of Franz Schubert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s formidable &#8220;Der Erlk\u00c3\u00b6nig.&#8221; Schubert was inspired by the Goethe poem of that name. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not familiar with Goethe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story, you are encouraged to <a href=\"http:\/\/openlearn.open.ac.uk\/file.php\/1502\/!via\/oucontent\/course\/26\/erlking.pdf\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a> and read it in German or English before you watch the video. <\/p>\n<p>Somehow Anderson and Roe never drop a note or miss a beat despite the horror, the horror\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xH4uKPDAEE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>If I were you, unless you have urgent business there, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d give the Steinway factory a wide berth.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the official 2011 Rifftides Halloween jack-o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122lantern, designed to scare trick or treaters out of their costumes and away from RT world headquarters. In case that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work, several pounds of cheap candy are standing by. It may be that jazz musicians have recorded music with a Halloween theme worth relaying to the Rifftides readership. [&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-3045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","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=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}