{"id":6167,"date":"2014-11-04T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2014-11-04T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T21:58:16","slug":"maple-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/11\/maple-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately outside the west wall of <em>Rifftides<\/em> world headquarters is a magnificent Sunset Maple. Each fall, the tree puts on a show. The show is in its final act. With luck, we have a week before the curtain of leaves falls. In the meantime, this is what we wake up to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-Maple-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-Maple-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset Maple # 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-Maple-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Sunset-Maple-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You probably suspect that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to use the foliage as an excuse to play a piece of music, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s from a television special, <em>Those Ragtime Years<\/em>, narrated by Hoagy Carmichael. It aired on November 22, 1960, on NBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Project 20<\/em>. This was the finale, Scott Joplin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maple Leaf Rag\u00e2\u20ac\u009d played by four pianists&#151;from left to right in the video, Ralph Sutton, Dick Wellstood, Eubie Blake and Carmichael. The Sidney DeParis band joins them for the final chorus.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bDZIcqI--38?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Canada might give serious thought to making that piece its national athem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately outside the west wall of Rifftides world headquarters is a magnificent Sunset Maple. Each fall, the tree puts on a show. The show is in its final act. With luck, we have a week before the curtain of leaves falls. In the meantime, this is what we wake up to. You probably suspect 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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6167","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\/6167","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=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}