{"id":335,"date":"2020-06-16T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=335"},"modified":"2020-06-15T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T06:08:12","slug":"clarinetist-anthony-mcgill-takes-two-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/06\/16\/clarinetist-anthony-mcgill-takes-two-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarinetist Anthony McGill Takes Two Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Boston Pops <a href=\"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/06\/13\/summontheheroes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">musicians-at-home tribute<\/a> to COVID-19 first responders, I was blown away today by this solo performance at home by the New York Philharmonic&#8217;s principal clarinetist Anthony McGill, of \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d\u2014beautifully and subtly re-tuned to convey Mr. McGill\u2019s sorrow and anger at racial injustice. Watch and listen to it on a device with good sound; it\u2019s worth it. McGill ends the piece with\u2026 well, I\u2019ll let you watch and see.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wM1G-Iti7Ns\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>McGill\u2019s statement inspired this haunting and inspiring rendition of Sebelius\u2019s Hymn from Finlandia, by music students and faculty from four different music schools, all taking two knees in protest of injustice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/427024255\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story appears on NPR\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2020\/06\/15\/clarinetist-anthony-mcgill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here and Now<\/a>, with an interview by WBUR radio\u2019s Robin Young. The interview is well worth a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2020\/06\/15\/clarinetist-anthony-mcgill\" width=\"100%\" height=\"124\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Boston Pops musicians-at-home tribute to COVID-19 first responders, I was blown away today by this solo performance at home by the New York Philharmonic&#8217;s principal clarinetist Anthony McGill, of \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d\u2014beautifully and subtly re-tuned to convey Mr. McGill\u2019s sorrow and anger at racial injustice. Watch and listen to it on a device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-music","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}