{"id":19820,"date":"2014-08-08T20:50:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T00:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=19820"},"modified":"2014-08-29T21:08:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T01:08:06","slug":"rip-peter-sculthorpe-1929-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=19820","title":{"rendered":"RIP Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/awscdn.australianmusiccentre.com.au\/images\/par_111_150w.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of Australia&#8217;s foremost composers,\u00a0<strong>Peter Sculthorpe,\u00a0<\/strong>has passed away at the age of 85. Sculthorpe&#8217;s extensive body of work (including eighteen string quartets) addressed a wide range of subjects, including the Iraq War, the plight of detained immigrants seeking asylum in Australia, and climate change. His music demonstrates a polyglot palette that includes Aboriginal and Asian influences. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QjWlbrraNGE\">link<\/a> to video of Sculthorpe&#8217;s Twelfth String Quartet (from Ubirr), performed by the Zephyr Quartet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=19820\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of Australia&#8217;s foremost composers,\u00a0Peter Sculthorpe,\u00a0has passed away at the age of 85. Sculthorpe&#8217;s extensive body of work (including eighteen string quartets) addressed a wide range of subjects, including the Iraq War, the plight of detained immigrants seeking asylum in Australia, and climate change. His music demonstrates a polyglot palette that includes Aboriginal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2962],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19821,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19820\/revisions\/19821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}