{"id":14974,"date":"2020-07-10T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T22:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14974"},"modified":"2020-07-10T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T22:09:25","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-the-virtual-guitar-orchestra-plays-sergio-assads-scient-safe-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-the-virtual-guitar-orchestra-plays-sergio-assads-scient-safe-sane\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: The Virtual Guitar Orchestra Plays S\u00e9rgio Assad&#8217;s &#8216;Scient, Safe &#038; Sane&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"8s271\" data-offset-key=\"40pe6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"40pe6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"40pe6-0-0\">Perhaps you remember the &#8220;Virtual Guitar Orchestra&#8221; video from a couple of months ago, in which classical guitar stars and other less-known players joined forces in pandemic-imposed isolation, and played a wonderful piece written by S\u00e9rgio Assad called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nXMOEGl4xSY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Kaleidokithara<\/em><\/a>. Well, now the ever-changing Virtual Guitar Orchestra is back in another amazing video posted on July 10, featuring a veritable who&#8217;s who of classical guitarists\u2014but also steel-string and electric guitarists (!), percussionists, and a bassist, performing (again in isolation) a new work by<\/span><span class=\"diy96o5h\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"40pe6-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"40pe6-1-0\">\u00a0Assad<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"40pe6-2-0\"> called <em>Scient, Safe and Sane<\/em>. It&#8217;s a complex, but breezy and fun piece; very accessible. Among the players are Fabio Zanon, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jouve, Pavel Steidl, Irina Kulikova, David Tanenbaum, Jason Vieaux, Antigoni Goni, Pablo Marquez, Xuefei Yang, Pablo Villegas, Margarita Escarpa, Ralph Towner, Antoine Boyer\u2014there are way too many to name them all! It&#8217;s a marvelous project, executed flawlessly and with great spirit. \u2014<em>Blair Jackson\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"40pe6-0-0\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_14977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14977\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14977\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sergio-assad-e1594418751241.jpg?resize=600%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">S\u00e9rgio Assad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you remember the &#8220;Virtual Guitar Orchestra&#8221; video from a couple of months ago, in which classical guitar stars and other less-known players joined forces in pandemic-imposed isolation, and played a wonderful piece written by S\u00e9rgio Assad called Kaleidokithara. Well, now the ever-changing Virtual Guitar Orchestra is back in another amazing video posted on July 10, featuring a veritable who&#8217;s who of classical guitarists\u2014but also steel-string and electric guitarists (!), percussionists, and a bassist, performing (again in isolation) a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14976,"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-14974","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\/07\/Virtual-Orch-2-e1594418571180.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974","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=14974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}