{"id":12108,"date":"2019-02-01T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2019-02-01T10:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:58:56","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-stepan-rak-plays-his-moving-new-tombeau-for-sabrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-stepan-rak-plays-his-moving-new-tombeau-for-sabrina\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: \u0160t\u0115p\u00e1n Rak Plays His Moving New &#8216;Tombeau for Sabrina&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day after Sabrina Vlaskalic was killed in a bicycle accident just two weeks ago, the great Czech composer-guitarist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepanrak.cz\/stepan-rak-biography.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0160t\u0115p\u00e1n Rak<\/a> put pencil to paper and wrote this short but truly moving <em>Tombeau for Sabrina. <\/em>When he posted it on YouTube on January 31, he wrote: &#8220;Dear friends, all of us were shocked by the recent tragedy which happened to the fabulous young guitarist Sabrina Vlaskalic. This tiny little piece is my tribute to her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And if you are interested in actually playing this piece, Rak has generously provided <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.fbsbx.com\/v\/t59.2708-21\/50282374_303773673675581_263910995716472832_n.pdf\/Rak_Tombeau.pdf?_nc_cat=104&amp;_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&amp;oh=8e4c140568630af1fe39fccba633bd17&amp;oe=5C5690AD&amp;dl=1https:\/\/cdn.fbsbx.com\/v\/t59.2708-21\/50282374_303773673675581_263910995716472832_n.pdf\/Rak_Tombeau.pdf?_nc_cat=104&amp;_nc_ht=cdn.fbsbx.com&amp;oh=8e4c140568630af1fe39fccba633bd17&amp;oe=5C5690AD&amp;dl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link to the music<\/a>.\u00a0\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12111\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sabrina-1.jpg?resize=548%2C548\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sabrina-1.jpg?w=548&amp;ssl=1 548w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sabrina-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sabrina-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sabrina-1.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after Sabrina Vlaskalic was killed in a bicycle accident just two weeks ago, the great Czech composer-guitarist\u00a0\u0160t\u0115p\u00e1n Rak put pencil to paper and wrote this short but truly moving Tombeau for Sabrina. When he posted it on YouTube on January 31, he wrote: &#8220;Dear friends, all of us were shocked by the recent tragedy which happened to the fabulous young guitarist Sabrina Vlaskalic. This tiny little piece is my tribute to her.&#8221; And if you are interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":12110,"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":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sabrina.jpg?fit=548%2C548&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","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=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}