{"id":14538,"date":"2020-03-27T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14538"},"modified":"2020-03-27T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:02:42","slug":"friday-fun-watch-the-great-necks-guitar-trio-perform-excerpts-from-sibelius-finlandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/friday-fun-watch-the-great-necks-guitar-trio-perform-excerpts-from-sibelius-finlandia\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Watch the Great Necks Trio Perform Excerpts from Sibelius&#8217; &#8216;Finlandia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool piece that really shows the power and depth a guitar trio is capable of. In this brand-new video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatnecks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Great Necks<\/a>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamlevinguitar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Levin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/borgguitar.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scott Borg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewrohde.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Rohde<\/a>\u2014offer excerpts from Borg&#8217;s arrangement of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius&#8217; wonderful (and famous) work <em>Finlandia<\/em>, Op. 26, written between 1899 and 1900. There&#8217;s lots of interesting activity going on in this one! <em>Finlandia<\/em> was the lead track on the trio&#8217;s excellent and super-imaginative <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2R5V66b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Original Arrangements for Three Guitars<\/em><\/a> album, which came out in the fall of 2018. The video was shot at <span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Our Lady of the Angels Catholic chapel in Catonsville, Maryland (just west of Baltimore); a lovely setting indeed! In the video, that&#8217;s Adam on the left, Matthew in the center and Scott on the right.\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14545\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14545\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sibelius.jpg?resize=600%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sibelius.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sibelius.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean Sibelius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool piece that really shows the power and depth a guitar trio is capable of. In this brand-new video, The Great Necks\u2014Adam Levin, Scott Borg and Matthew Rohde\u2014offer excerpts from Borg&#8217;s arrangement of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius&#8217; wonderful (and famous) work Finlandia, Op. 26, written between 1899 and 1900. There&#8217;s lots of interesting activity going on in this one! Finlandia was the lead track on the trio&#8217;s excellent and super-imaginative Original Arrangements for Three Guitars album, which came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14543,"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-14538","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\/2020\/03\/great-necks.jpg?fit=838%2C611&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538","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=14538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}