{"id":1822,"date":"2015-09-06T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2015-09-20T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T17:41:29","slug":"time-for-some-liberace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2015\/09\/06\/time-for-some-liberace\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for some Liberace!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DKIEbrd2nG8?list=PLwnOWN1VC-SLaslz0T0-DbviSwK5BdniH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the wonderful whirlpool rabbit hole of YouTube is a seasonal treasure featuring everyone&#8217;s favorite piano showman and some dancing skeletons!\u00a0\u00a0This is Liberace&#8217;s own interpretation of \u00a0the\u00a0Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875). It is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns. The composition is based on a poem by Henri Cazalis, <em>Danse Macabre<\/em>, here&#8217;s just a little of a translation of this poem by Peter Low:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zigger-zigger-zig tapping on a coffin<br \/>\nDeath has got a beat and a toothy grin.<br \/>\nAt the stroke of twelve plays a crazy polka<br \/>\nzigger-zigger-zag on his violin.<\/p>\n<p>The night is dark, the winter winds blow<br \/>\nthe tree branches creak in the stormy clouds<br \/>\nand off the whitened skeletons go<br \/>\nthey skip and they leap in their flowing shrouds.<\/p>\n<p>Zigger-zigger-zig how they frisk and toss<br \/>\ndancing to the beat rattling every bone.<br \/>\nNow a lustful pair sit on the moss<br \/>\nhoping to repeat pleasures they had known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the wonderful whirlpool rabbit hole of YouTube is a seasonal treasure featuring everyone&#8217;s favorite piano showman and some dancing skeletons!\u00a0\u00a0This is Liberace&#8217;s own interpretation of \u00a0the\u00a0Danse Macabre (first performed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2015\/09\/06\/time-for-some-liberace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time for some Liberace!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treats-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}