{"id":4893,"date":"2014-08-22T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2014-08-22T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:37:00","slug":"weekend-picks-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4893","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed Lloyd Leno&#8217;s film, <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=241\">Lip Vibration of Trombone Embouchures<\/a>, you might like\u00a0watching a cymbal filmed at 1,000 frames per second.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpoanOlb3-w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a neat project.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We put a Carnegie Hall orchestra in the middle of New York City and placed an empty podium in front of the musicians with a sign that read, &#8220;Conduct Us.&#8221; Random New Yorkers who accepted the challenge were given the opportunity to conduct this world-class orchestra. The orchestra responded to the conductors, altering their tempo and performance accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_cbnBak8RI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While the title is <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzadvice.com\/7-surprising-qualities-of-the-worlds-best-improvisers\/\">7 Surprising Qualities of the World&#8217;s Best Improvisers<\/a>, I don&#8217;t think any of them are really all that surprising. Still, it&#8217;s a great read and worth a look.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And finally, I was just talking with fellow trombonist Alan about this video of Tommy Pederson performing Flight of the Bumblebee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFbSHWBjuuQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed Lloyd Leno&#8217;s film, Lip Vibration of Trombone Embouchures, you might like\u00a0watching a cymbal filmed at 1,000 frames per second. Here&#8217;s a neat project. We put a Carnegie Hall orchestra in the middle of New York City and placed an empty podium in front of the musicians with a sign that read, &#8220;Conduct &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Picks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1365,1376,1386,1393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conductingrehearsing","category-humor","category-science","category-weekend-picks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-1gV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}