{"id":369,"date":"2021-09-22T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/?p=369"},"modified":"2021-09-22T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T21:50:43","slug":"enjoyment-of-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/22\/enjoyment-of-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoyment of Performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciated noting that\u00a0<em>Messiah<\/em> was also very enjoyable for the performers, as well as the audience. I think a lot of times people assume that, because someone is performing music, they are automatically enjoying it. However, this often times is not the case, and I think the pieces that are most enjoyed by the audience are those that are also most enjoyed by the performers. I believe that when performers care about a piece and its meaning or simply enjoy performing it, there is much more power behind the performance. For me, when it is obvious a person is not enjoying performing, it causes me to not enjoy the music as much, even if the piece is really enjoyable. I also think it&#8217;s very interesting that Handel made adjustments to\u00a0<em>Messiah<\/em> depending on when and where it was performed. I think this adds a level of surprise and reduces any monotony that might be present in the performance. This element of surprise, I think, definitely adds more enjoyment for both the performers and the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciated noting that\u00a0Messiah was also very enjoyable for the performers, as well as the audience. I think a lot of times people assume that, because someone is performing music, they are automatically enjoying it. However, this often times is not the case, and I think the pieces that are most enjoyed by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/2021\/09\/22\/enjoyment-of-performing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enjoyment of Performing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/pca263fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}