{"id":876,"date":"2008-03-31T17:50:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2014-03-06T19:06:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:06:25","slug":"continuing-your-musical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Continuing your musical education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s excursion starts with Dave Apollon<\/a> (1897-1972), arguably one of the most adventurous mandolinists of the 20th century and an inspiration to this day. Here he is with with Victor Borge, playing a Chestnut (Hora Staccato<\/i>, written by Grigoras Dinicu in 1906):
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(might be worthwhile to watch Jascha Heifetz<\/a> playing it too).<\/p>\n

Dave Apollon mostly made his living playing vaudeville in the 1920s, and then as a night club performer. One of his signature pieces was Russian Rag<\/i>, George Cobb’s 1918 take on Rachmaninoff’s C# minor Prelude<\/i>. Alas, there’s no YouTube of Dave Apollon playing it, but these three versions are in the same spirit, and each has its own charm:<\/p>\n

Russian Rag by Velvet Sun (Japanese ensembles are often enlightening, and sometimes have great hats):
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Modern Mandolin Quartet:
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The Old 78s:
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Today’s excursion starts with Dave Apollon (1897-1972), arguably one of the most adventurous mandolinists of the 20th century and an inspiration to this day. Here he is with with Victor Borge, playing a Chestnut (Hora Staccato, written by Grigoras Dinicu in 1906):(might be worthwhile to watch Jascha Heifetz playing it too). Dave Apollon mostly made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}