{"id":72801,"date":"2020-02-12T15:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=72801"},"modified":"2022-03-04T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T01:33:31","slug":"adam-eccleston-shares-personal-reflections-on-his-favorite-music-by-black-and-brown-composers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/adam-eccleston-shares-personal-reflections-on-his-favorite-music-by-black-and-brown-composers\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Eccleston shares personal reflections on his favorite music by Black and Brown composers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Black History Month is a time for me to reminisce and give thanks to those who have paved the way for Black and Brown people in classical music and thinking of all of the Black and Brown service members who have paved the way for my family.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until a few years ago when I started to play music by black composers. I have learned so much about my own heritage by playing the music of composers that look like me. It\u2019s unfortunate that it has taken me half my life to discover these magnificent artists, but I\u2019m glad I decided to venture out and discover new elements of classical music. There is so much more out there and I am just scratching the surface of a lifelong discovery! <em>Adam Eccleston is All Classical Portland&#8217;s 2020 Professional Artist in Residence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black History Month is a time for me to reminisce and give thanks to those who have paved the way for Black and Brown people in classical music and thinking of all of the Black and Brown service members who have paved the way for my family.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until a few years ago when &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095,4044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary","category-playlist"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:37:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}