{"id":19,"date":"2008-07-18T05:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-07-18T05:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:09:35","slug":"classical-music-rocks-zander-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Classical Music Rocks:  Zander Explains Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m coming out of the rock and pop closet and declaring my love for classical music.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Zander\">Benjamin Zander<\/a>, a conductor gave this talk on how classical music speaks to all of us at the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference.  He&#8217;s managed to explain how classical music is magic in a way that I&#8217;ve never heard before.  This talk is as much about leadership and our shared humanity as it is about music&#8211;very much worth watching and listening too&#8211;as are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">the other TED talks<\/a>.  They are indeed &#8220;ideas worth spreading.&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/BenjaminZander_2008-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/BenjaminZander-2008.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=286\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m coming out of the rock and pop closet and declaring my love for classical music. Benjamin Zander, a conductor gave this talk on how classical music speaks to all of us at the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. He&#8217;s managed to explain how classical music is magic in a way that I&#8217;ve never heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[52,51,50,49,53],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-classical","tag-culture-2","tag-music","tag-ted","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}