{"id":101,"date":"2008-03-03T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T03:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-03-04T07:24:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T13:24:59","slug":"di-stefano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/di-stefano\/","title":{"rendered":"Di Stefano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giuseppe_di_Stefano\">Giuseppe Di Stefano<\/a>: obit March 3, 2008. Too bad about the BBC <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/arts\/7276282.stm\">photo<\/a>. He was a great singer. Listen to the definitive 1953 <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Puccini-Tosca-Callas-Stefano-Sabata\/dp\/B0000E3HM3\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1204600284&#038;sr=1-1\"><i>Tosca<\/i><\/a>, or the Toscanini <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arturo-Toscanini-Symphony-Orchestra-Vol-XI\/dp\/B00004R8MF\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1204600482&#038;sr=1-3\">Verdi <i>Requiem<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> I always thought his singing was a little tight and constricted, especially for an Italian; and maybe I was at least partly right, though he sang for decades. If I had been absolutely right, he would have lasted only a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-9uRMplmuqA\">to remember him by<\/a>. Be sure to pay attention to the decrescendo on the high C. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-9uRMplmuqA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-9uRMplmuqA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Di Stefano: obit March 3, 2008. Too bad about the BBC photo. He was a great singer. Listen to the definitive 1953 Tosca, or the Toscanini Verdi Requiem. I always thought his singing was a little tight and constricted, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/di-stefano\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}