{"id":13963,"date":"2012-04-14T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T12:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=13963"},"modified":"2012-04-13T07:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T07:31:57","slug":"four-seasonal-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/four-seasonal-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Seasonal Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/65Pl4fpw_vE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Grant Woolard<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the recent equinox, I&#8217;ve composed &#8220;Four Seasonal Sketches,&#8221; a set of four pieces that depict each season.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Vivaldi, I know it doesn&#8217;t sound boldly original. However, I added an extra element: a video in which my surroundings change in accordance with each season. This includes pleasant seasonal phenomena as well as a wide variety of natural disasters. I&#8217;m not sure how my piano survived the elements.<\/p>\n<p>This idea came to me while living in Japan, a country where walls are thin, insulation is lacking, and central heating and cooling systems are non-existent. Even indoors, one cannot escape the raw winter cold and merciless summer heat.  This over-exposure to the seasonal flux inspired me to create this video. <\/p>\n<p>While capturing the essence of each season, at the same time I tried to make the pieces as different from one another as possible. You&#8217;ll hear classical, jazz, 20th-century, and several genres I don&#8217;t know the names of. Sit back and enjoy the four seasons condensed into 3 minutes and 23 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, random question for you&#8211;what&#8217;s your favorite song by Jacky Cheung? 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