{"id":41164,"date":"2017-07-15T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=41164"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:56:27","slug":"prayer-for-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/07\/prayer-for-orchestra.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amanda Harberg&#039;s Prayer for Orchestra\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x23u0G4R6aM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p>I discovered\u00a0Amanda Harberg\u2019s music through the Naxos Music Database. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaharberg.com\/listen\/concerto.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Viola Concerto<\/a> is a phenomenal work, which you should listen to (it is <a href=\"http:\/\/amandaharberg.com\/listen\/concerto.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on the composer\u2019s website through SoundCloud<\/a>). The same <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2sVW5qi\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">forthcoming CD<\/a> also includes a wonderful viola concerto by Max Wolpert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Harberg-Viola-Concerto-Wolpert-Giants\/dp\/B0719JBXX8\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499451465&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=amanda+harberg&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkId=ae65dd9ced3e9354f76fc64cbc9b6276\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0719JBXX8&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0719JBXX8\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Want more music now? Here\u2019s Harberg\u2019s Solis for Orchestra:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QG9ZQUxM92Q\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QG9ZQUxM92Q<\/a>\n<p>Here is \u201cElegy for Viola and String Orchestra\u201d:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elegy for Viola and String Orchestra\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gG4XlchuWcE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>And here\u2019s her \u201cElegy\u201d in the arrangement for violin and piano:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harberg&#039;s Elegy for Violin and Piano\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UIR3z5zlkI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered\u00a0Amanda Harberg\u2019s music through the Naxos Music Database. Her Viola Concerto is a phenomenal work, which you should listen to (it is on the composer\u2019s website through SoundCloud). The same forthcoming CD also includes a wonderful viola concerto by Max Wolpert. Want more music now? Here\u2019s Harberg\u2019s Solis for Orchestra: Here is \u201cElegy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":41166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[7803,8461,9411],"class_list":["post-41164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-orchestral","tag-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prayer for Orchestra<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I discovered\u00a0Amanda Harberg&#039;s music through the Naxos Music Database. 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