{"id":5426,"date":"2014-01-26T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T04:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T08:01:00","slug":"other-matters-beethoven-in-cowichan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/01\/other-matters-beethoven-in-cowichan\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Beethoven In Cowichan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;emVbexpSYEfZ08ocqxr5NJfexjIxT0xX&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cowichan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cowichan.jpg\" alt=\"Cowichan\" width=\"200\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5427\" \/><\/a>Cowichan is a region on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ludwig-van-Beethoven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Ludwig-van-Beethoven.jpg\" alt=\"Ludwig-van-Beethoven\" width=\"200\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5428\" \/><\/a> Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer. Put them together and you get a promotional video. It is not the <em>Rifftides<\/em> custom to present promotional videos, so please do not send yours unless it is this brilliant, melodic, mouthwatering and noncommercial. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all move to Cowichan. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHC9D11xA4c?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Thanks to friend Hal Strack for alerting me to the Cowichan video. Brigadier General Strack, United States Air <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hal-Strack-1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hal-Strack-1941.jpg\" alt=\"Hal Strack, 1941\" width=\"200\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5429\" \/><\/a>Force (retired), was a lifelong friend of Paul Desmond. Early in their pre-military careers he worked as a tenor saxophonist in bands with Paul. In an illustration from <em>Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond<\/em>, he&#8217;s pictured here in 1941 playing a solo. He told me that the song was &#8220;Singing The Blues.&#8221; Without Hal as a resource, my biography of Desmond would have been significantly thinner. See the 19 Strack entries in the index of the book. Incidentally (ha), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/10\/reminder-the-paul-desmond-bio-is-now-digital.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Take Five<\/em> is now available as an ebook<\/a>, complete with index and all the photographs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1em;\"> <em>(Shameless plug approved by the <em>Rifftides<\/em> board of directors.)<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;emVbexpSYEfZ08ocqxr5NJfexjIxT0xX&#8221;] Cowichan is a region on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer. Put them together and you get a promotional video. It is not the Rifftides custom to present promotional videos, so please do not send yours unless it is this brilliant, melodic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5427,"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-5426","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\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426","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=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}