{"id":5280,"date":"2019-09-28T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:16:05","slug":"review-a-toronto-symphony-strauss-to-stir-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-a-toronto-symphony-strauss-to-stir-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Toronto Symphony Strauss to stir the soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/review\/2019\/09\/28\/a-toronto-symphony-strauss-to-stir-the-soul.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Toronto Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By John Terauds<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScottish maestro Donald Runnicles went out of his way to highlight the lyrical side of Brahms\u2019 imagination. Runnicles\u2019 tempos were downright luxurious at times, spotlighting his graceful turn with phrasing and letting the music breathe. The conductor let light and air suffuse the whole score.\u201d (Brahms Symphony No. 3)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunnicles and the full-sized orchestra fully captured the transformative magic of the music\u2026The musicians and their leader cast the spell and kept the audience in rapt silence right until the end. Soul-stirring moments such as these are what keep us coming back for more\u201d (Strauss Death and Transfiguration)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/music\/review\/2019\/09\/28\/a-toronto-symphony-strauss-to-stir-the-soul.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Toronto Star By John Terauds \u201cScottish maestro Donald Runnicles went out of his way to highlight the lyrical side of Brahms\u2019 imagination. Runnicles\u2019 tempos were downright luxurious at times, spotlighting his graceful turn with phrasing and letting the music breathe. The conductor let light and air suffuse the whole score.\u201d (Brahms Symphony No. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/review-a-toronto-symphony-strauss-to-stir-the-soul\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3685,3613,3825,3686,3612],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concerto","tag-conductor","tag-donald-runnicles","tag-orchestra","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5281,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}