{"id":7354,"date":"2015-05-26T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2015-05-26T19:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:05:56","slug":"john-williams-on-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/john-williams-on-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"John Williams on Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is nifty&#8230; a guy named <a href=\"http:\/\/@JohnHuldt\">John Huldt<\/a> has arranged several of John Williams&#8217; best-known movie themes for acoustic guitar and recorded a medley of them. I&#8217;ve heard music from the <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies performed in a number of idioms &#8212; I even own a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Wars-Cocktails-The-Cantina\/dp\/B00000I7VZ\">CD <\/a>of <em>Star Wars<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lounge_music\">&#8220;lounge&#8221; music<\/a> &#8212; but this minimalist approach yields some pretty interesting results, in particular the <em>Superman <\/em>theme, which takes on a subtly Mexican sound, and the theme from <em>Jurassic Park<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve always thought was one of Williams&#8217; greatest pieces, a simple little melody that at various points in the movie conveys grandeur, wonder, adventure, and deep melancholy. In Huldt&#8217;s hands, it&#8217;s simply lovely&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t mind an entire album of this stuff!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oxLxtJdYli0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is nifty&#8230; a guy named John Huldt has arranged several of John Williams&#8217; best-known movie themes for acoustic guitar and recorded a medley of them. I&#8217;ve heard music from the Star Wars movies performed in a number of idioms &#8212; I even own a CD of Star Wars &#8220;lounge&#8221; music &#8212; but this minimalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}