{"id":24388,"date":"2014-02-22T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24388"},"modified":"2014-02-22T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T16:36:08","slug":"heres-a-mash-up-for-you-symphonic-music-and-professional-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/22\/heres-a-mash-up-for-you-symphonic-music-and-professional-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a mash-up for you &#8211; symphonic music and professional sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2014\/02\/22\/its-all-very-well-until-the-oboist-blows-a-rotator-cuff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Cosh<\/a> explains that the future of classical music may well lie in the ballpark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Colorado Rockies have commissioned and recorded a theme song from composer Charles Denler, creator of introductory music for <em>Oprah<\/em> and NBC\u2019s <em>Dateline<\/em>. According to the <em>Denver Business Journal<\/em>, the new Rockies theme, &#8220;Take the Field&#8221;, will come with multiple versions for particular game situations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Denler, who has a trunkful of TV and film soundtracks to his credit, said some 80 members of [the Colorado Symphony] recorded \u201ca big \u2018<strong>Star Wars<\/strong>\u2019-y variation and a very serious, pensive, we\u2019re-going-to-make-it-through-this variation, and the main theme, which is very upbeat and very aggressive in a good sportsman kind of way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is hard to hear of this idea without reflecting on the fact that orchestral and big-band music is a killer app of Western civilization, but one whose frontline practitioners, in the form of regional orchestras, are said to be in a state of permanent crisis. Sports fans love Sam Spence\u2019s lumbering <em>NFL Films<\/em> soundtracks and still wriggle orgiastically at the sound of \u201cBrass Bonanza\u201d. There would appear to be space for creative enterprise here: I wonder, for example, if Mr. Denler\u2019s contract would allow him to sell a full-on three-movement Rockies Symphony once his main theme becomes familiar to fans. Different variations for different game situations is a good idea, but perhaps only a first step; maybe each inning should have its own theme? Individual players represented by their own Wagnerian motifs?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Maclean&#8217;s, Colby Cosh explains that the future of classical music may well lie in the ballpark: The Colorado Rockies have commissioned and recorded a theme song from composer Charles Denler, creator of introductory music for Oprah and NBC\u2019s Dateline. According to the Denver Business Journal, the new Rockies theme, &#8220;Take the Field&#8221;, will come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,28,18],"tags":[952,823,174,200],"class_list":["post-24388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-colorado","tag-innovation","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24389,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions\/24389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}