{"id":4064,"date":"2016-04-25T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2016-04-26T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:05:39","slug":"jason-vieaux-offers-a-tribute-to-prince-readies-visconti-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/jason-vieaux-offers-a-tribute-to-prince-readies-visconti-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Vieaux Offers a Tribute to Prince; Readies Visconti Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to the reliably eclectic Jason Vieaux to be the first major classical guitarist to post a video honoring the memory of Prince, who died last week. Here, Jason serves up a medley that contains bits of &#8220;The Beautiful Ones,&#8221; &#8220;Take Me With U,&#8221; &#8220;Computer Blue,&#8221; &#8220;Raspberry Beret,&#8221; and &#8220;Purple Rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other Jason Vieaux news, the guitarist will perform the world premiere of composer Dan Visconti&#8217;s <em>Living Language<\/em> on May 6 at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center in Yountville, California, and on May 8 at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California. According to Visconti, this new piece &#8220;will explore an inversion of the typical concerto format, where the orchestra normally exposes material with the soloist elaborating and commenting; to the contrary, my piece will explore the orchestra as a kind of echo chamber that passes around gestures that all originate from the guitar soloist&#8217;s melodic material&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vieaux already has another Visconti piece in his repertoire: The bluesy solo number &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Strum,&#8221; written in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you missed our exclusive <em>Classical Guitar Sessions<\/em> performance by Vieaux from earlier this year, you can check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/classical-guitar-sessions-presents-jason-vieaux\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to the reliably eclectic Jason Vieaux to be the first major classical guitarist to post a video honoring the memory of Prince, who died last week. Here, Jason serves up a medley that contains bits of &#8220;The Beautiful Ones,&#8221; &#8220;Take Me With U,&#8221; &#8220;Computer Blue,&#8221; &#8220;Raspberry Beret,&#8221; and &#8220;Purple Rain.&#8221; In other Jason Vieaux news, the guitarist will perform the world premiere of composer Dan Visconti&#8217;s Living Language on May 6 at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4066,"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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jason.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","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=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}