{"id":11303,"date":"2018-11-04T07:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=11303"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:45:43","slug":"different-duos-sunday-6-chris-fossek-guitar-and-paul-merkelo-trumpet-play-a-macedonian-dance-by-miroslav-tadic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/different-duos-sunday-6-chris-fossek-guitar-and-paul-merkelo-trumpet-play-a-macedonian-dance-by-miroslav-tadic\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Duos Sunday #6: Chris Fossek (guitar) and Paul Merkelo (trumpet) Play a Macedonian Dance by Miroslav Tadi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is <em>really<\/em> a combination you don&#8217;t see every day: classical guitar and trumpet. But trust me on this: it works! The piece in this video is called <em>Gajdarkso Oro<\/em>, and it was written by the well-respected Serbian guitarist, composer, and teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miroslavtadic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miroslav Tadi\u0107<\/a>, who based it on a sprightly, traditional Macedonian dance. It&#8217;s played by the duo of Southern California-based guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisfossek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Fossek<\/a> (I favorably reviewed his <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-james-akers-duo-amaral-and-chris-fossek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Camino Cielo<\/em><\/a> album in the spring of 2017; he studied with Tadi\u0107) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulmerkelotrumpet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Merkelo<\/a>, who is the principal\u00a0 trumpeter with the Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al. It&#8217;s a wonderful piece, beautifully performed, with lots for each instrument to do! \u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is really a combination you don&#8217;t see every day: classical guitar and trumpet. But trust me on this: it works! The piece in this video is called Gajdarkso Oro, and it was written by the well-respected Serbian guitarist, composer, and teacher Miroslav Tadi\u0107, who based it on a sprightly, traditional Macedonian dance. It&#8217;s played by the duo of Southern California-based guitarist Chris Fossek (I favorably reviewed his Camino Cielo album in the spring of 2017; he studied with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/fossek-and-merkelo.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}