{"id":8422,"date":"2017-11-22T15:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T23:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2017-11-22T15:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T23:19:42","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-enjoy-frederic-hands-a-psalm-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/happy-thanksgiving-enjoy-frederic-hands-a-psalm-of-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy Frederic Hand’s ‘A Psalm of Thanksgiving’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the U.S., Thursday November 23 is Thanksgiving Day, a holiday for most, a time to reflect on the things we are thankful for in life, a time to get together with family and\/or friends if possible, perhaps enjoy a special meal, leave our cares behind.<\/p>\n

This piece by American composer Frederic Hand<\/a> was not written for the Thanksgiving holiday per se; rather it was inspired by Psalm 100 from the Old Testament. But certainly the spirit<\/em> of the day and the piece come from a similar place, so I thought it might a nice, calm interlude in your day, wherever you are, whatever you believe. Hand wrote the piece for guitar and flute (you can purchase the music from Sheet Music Plus<\/a> and also listen to a recording by Hand and flautist Jayna Nelson (from Hand’s wonderful Odyssey<\/em> album) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The version in this video is a bit different. Tetsuo Isono plays guitar, but instead of flute, we have Masumi Suzuki on chromatic harmonica; an interesting choice! We wish you all peace and love.\u00a0 \u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the U.S., Thursday November 23 is Thanksgiving Day, a holiday for most, a time to reflect on the things we are thankful for in life, a time to get together with family and\/or friends if possible, perhaps enjoy a special meal, leave our cares behind. This piece by American composer Frederic Hand was not written for the Thanksgiving holiday per se; rather it was inspired by Psalm 100 from the Old Testament. But certainly the spirit of the day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8424,"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-8422","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\/2017\/11\/hand.png?fit=450%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","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=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}