{"id":1476,"date":"2009-02-26T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2012-07-12T22:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T03:47:38","slug":"in-the-fiddlers-house-everyone-dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/in-the-fiddlers-house-everyone-dances\/","title":{"rendered":"in the fiddler&#8217;s house everyone dances . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an old Yiddish saying, I&#8217;m told. Here&#8217;s another favorite fiddle tune,  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w7dEYG3w2sc\">Flatbush Waltz<\/a> &#8212; written by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andystatman.org\/\">Andy Statman<\/a>. The mandolin soloist is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andy_Statman\">Statman<\/a>, himself. The fiddle player is Itzhak Perlman. I liked this tune so much when I first discovered it that I wrote a poem about it. My poem is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=65#anchor005\">here<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested in some background, you might want to watch Perlman&#8217;s EMI video entitled <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Itzhak-Perlman-Fiddlers-House\/dp\/B000HC2NKG\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dvd&#038;qid=1235704610&#038;sr=1-1\">In the Fiddler&#8217;s House<\/a><\/i>. Everyone knows <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itzhak_Perlman\">Itzhak Perlman<\/a>, I think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mbs4rPPAwk4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an old Yiddish saying, I&#8217;m told. Here&#8217;s another favorite fiddle tune, Flatbush Waltz &#8212; written by Andy Statman. The mandolin soloist is Statman, himself. The fiddle player is Itzhak Perlman. I liked this tune so much when I first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/in-the-fiddlers-house-everyone-dances\/\">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":[3,11],"tags":[126,127,125],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-music","tag-andy-statman","tag-itzhak-perlman","tag-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}