{"id":2944,"date":"2019-03-26T08:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:31:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T10:31:15","slug":"distil-showcase-2018-problems-to-sharpen-the-young-i-by-esther-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/distil-showcase-2018-problems-to-sharpen-the-young-i-by-esther-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Distil Showcase 2019: Problems To Sharpen The Young (I) by Esther Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/files\/2019\/03\/EF0441B4-D8FD-43E9-B7F5-83AEFF5C0ADB-200x300.jpeg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2945\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/files\/2019\/03\/EF0441B4-D8FD-43E9-B7F5-83AEFF5C0ADB-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/files\/2019\/03\/EF0441B4-D8FD-43E9-B7F5-83AEFF5C0ADB-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/files\/2019\/03\/EF0441B4-D8FD-43E9-B7F5-83AEFF5C0ADB-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/files\/2019\/03\/EF0441B4-D8FD-43E9-B7F5-83AEFF5C0ADB.jpeg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Distil Showcase will return again to the Tolbooth in Stirling on Friday 29th March 2019 at 8pm. The concert showcases the new and exciting music of traditional music composers. We are very lucky to have Mr McFall&#8217;s Chamber as our resident house band once again. You can buy tickets for this fab night of music <a href=\"https:\/\/culturestirling.org\/events\/distil-hands-trad\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Esther Swift has written music called Problems To Sharpen The Young (I). Here&#8217;s some information about it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019v been wanting to write some music about immigration for some but when I read Rachel poem, the rhythm of the words combined with the subject matter meant it suddenly clicked into place. This piece sets a poem by recent long term resident of Edinburgh Rachel McCrum. Rachel explores an old mathematical riddle. The poem is brought into context in the final lines.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about all the composers <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/event\/2413\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Distil Showcase will return again to the Tolbooth in Stirling on Friday 29th March 2019 at 8pm. The concert showcases the new and exciting music of traditional music composers. We are very lucky to have Mr McFall&#8217;s Chamber as our resident house band once again. You can buy tickets for this fab night of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-showcase-2019","8":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/files\/2019\/03\/EF0441B4-D8FD-43E9-B7F5-83AEFF5C0ADB.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}