{"id":1763,"date":"2004-12-18T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2004-12-18T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T20:34:27","slug":"shameless-huckstering-ephraims-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/12\/shameless-huckstering-ephraims-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless Huckstering:  Ephraim&#8217;s Harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an earlier thread, someone opined that I am precisely the sort of snob for whom it is impossible to select a musical gift that will be appreciated.   I want to report that two brilliant, generous and very thoughtful friends have actually done it, even without reference to an Amazon wish list.  The CD is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephraimsharp.org\">Saints Bound for Heaven<\/a>, recorded by a Mormonish group called Ephraim&#8217;s Harp in NYC, and it&#8217;s great stuff.<!--more-->  The performance preserves the vigor and excitement of a Sacred Harp sing, without the jarring intonation problems that can occur with a wildly enthusiastic group of amateurs. There&#8217;s lots of good singing here, and some fun settings of texts we know with other tunes.  This is the soil from which American (and Mormon) hymnody grew, and it&#8217;s a good thing to return to roots every once in a while.   You can listen to clips and buy the CD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ephraimsharp.org\">here<\/a>.  Do it!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an earlier thread, someone opined that I am precisely the sort of snob for whom it is impossible to select a musical gift that will be appreciated. I want to report that two brilliant, generous and very thoughtful friends have actually done it, even without reference to an Amazon wish list. The CD is Saints Bound for Heaven, recorded by a Mormonish group called Ephraim&#8217;s Harp in NYC, and it&#8217;s great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}