{"id":480271,"date":"2018-12-27T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=772844"},"modified":"2018-12-27T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T21:25:28","slug":"kennedy-center-honors-see-st-vincents-virtuosic-tribute-to-philip-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/kennedy-center-honors-see-st-vincents-virtuosic-tribute-to-philip-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center Honors: See St. Vincent\u2019s Virtuosic Tribute to Philip Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/st-vincent-kennedy-center-honors.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/st-vincent\/\" id=\"auto-tag_st-vincent\" data-tag=\"st-vincent\">St. Vincent<\/a> performed a faithful version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/philip-glass\/\" id=\"auto-tag_philip-glass\" data-tag=\"philip-glass\">Philip Glass<\/a> composition \u201cOsamu\u2019s Theme\u201d with the violinist Jennifer Koh at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kennedy-center-honors\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kennedy-center-honors\" data-tag=\"kennedy-center-honors\">Kennedy Center Honors<\/a> in Washington D.C. The event took place on December 2nd and aired Wednesday the 26th on CBS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOsamu\u2019s Theme\u201d comes from <em>Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters<\/em>, a 1985 Paul Schrader film scored by Glass along with the Kronos Quartet. The original revolves around hissing cymbals and a light pitter patter on the drums, jangly guitar runs punctuated by power-strums and long runs high on the scale from a violin. St. Vincent and Koh, both virtuosos in their respective fields, replicated this dynamic with ease, blitzing through an abbreviated version of Glass\u2019 original.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to celebrating Glass, this year\u2019s Kennedy Center Honors also put a spotlight on the lifetime achievements of Cher, Reba McEntire and Wayne Shorter. The cast of <em>Hamilton<\/em> was on hand as well to be recognized \u201cas trailblazing creators of a transformative work that defies category.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kennedy-center-honors-see-st-vincents-virtuosic-tribute-to-philip-glass-772844\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Vincent performed a faithful version of the Philip Glass composition \u201cOsamu\u2019s Theme\u201d with the violinist Jennifer Koh at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C. The event took place on December 2nd and aired Wednesday the 26th on CBS. \u201cOsamu\u2019s Theme\u201d comes from Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a 1985 Paul Schrader film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:42:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}