{"id":23714,"date":"2016-05-11T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23714"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:05:22","slug":"132-what-song-can-you-play-on-an-instrument-30-day-song-challenge-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/11\/132-what-song-can-you-play-on-an-instrument-30-day-song-challenge-day-26\/","title":{"rendered":"132: What song can you play on an instrument? (30 Day Song Challenge: Day 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far away, which was actually Morley in the early 21st Century, I played this piece of music as part of my A-Level recital alongside Mrs Wilkinson (?), one of the music teachers. I recall rehearsing this for months but realised recently that it had been running around my head quite a bit of the time since, although the melody had become a little warped over t<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ime. This list forced me to dig into my memory and find this piece once more.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>The first movement is sublime and it is the part that rolls around my brain many times in a week. It&#8217;s hard to follow, but when one part moves, the other is fairly static for a while, and then they move together in quite a brilliant way. Going into the music a little deeper, the dialogue between the two violins in the second movement is wonderful &#8211; it just sings to my soul. I never liked the third movement and don&#8217;t remember it quite so clearly, but I will have performed it.<\/p>\n<p>My performance, obviously, would never have been at this level! To be honest, it would take a lot of work to get it anywhere near where I was 14\/15 years ago now too. I must admit that Mrs Pitts\u00a0has never even heard me play the violin, let alone anything like this &#8211; so there is a bit of doubt in her mind when I say that I played this, but I definitely did! If you have a spare 18 or so minutes, please let this enter your life.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1165\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJh6i-t_I1Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, in what feels like a galaxy far away, which was actually Morley in the early 21st Century, I played this piece of music as part of my A-Level recital alongside Mrs Wilkinson (?), one of the music teachers. 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