{"id":975,"date":"2011-04-08T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denleymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=975"},"modified":"2011-04-08T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T11:06:13","slug":"appropriate-funeral-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/appropriate-funeral-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriate funeral songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to play at my Grandma&#8217;s funeral today.\u00a0 I had two days to come up with something appropriate and something I could throw together as a violin solo.\u00a0 It couldn&#8217;t be religious (Grandma was an RSL\u00a0Club type person, was not really church going), and due to the general age of the people attending (Grandma&#8217;s age), it had to be something somewhat familiar.<\/p>\n<p>What a task!<\/p>\n<p>I came up with these:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/What-A-Wonderful-World.pdf\">What A Wonderful World<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/The-Rainbow-Connection.pdf\">The Rainbow Connection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was instant recognition of these pieces, happy exclamations and people started to sing along, which was wonderful.\u00a0 There were lots of tears shed too especially with &#8216;What a Wonderful World&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I could have made them harder, but\u00a0 I had to make sure I could play them even with tears streaming down my face.\u00a0 Thankfully all was good and tissues were not required \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I even chuckled afterwards when we were loading my violin in the car and a guest\u00a0commented &#8220;I&#8217;m surprised&#8230;you sounded professional.\u00a0 Not even like one of those &#8216;Eeee eeeee&#8217; (does the bowing action) kids.\u00a0 I loved it&#8221;.\u00a0 LOL um thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked to play at my Grandma&#8217;s funeral today.\u00a0 I had two days to come up with something appropriate and something I could throw together as a violin solo.\u00a0 It couldn&#8217;t be religious (Grandma was an RSL\u00a0Club type person, was not really church going), and due to the general age of the people attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}