{"id":2150,"date":"2010-08-08T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2010-08-08T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T10:50:56","slug":"ljova-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/ljova-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Ljova profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s NYT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/07\/arts\/music\/07ljova.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">carried a profile<\/a> by Allan Kozinn of Lev Zhurbin (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ljova.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ljova<\/a>) who featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2008\/12\/poem-mnemosyne\/\" target=\"_blank\">a previous post<\/a> about\u00a0Joe Stickney&#8217;s poetry.\u00a0 From the profile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lev Zhurbin, the violist, composer and arranger who performs and writes under the name <a title=\"Ljova\u2019s Web site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ljova.com\/\">Ljova<\/a>, almost always has a lot of projects before him. If he isn\u2019t writing for, or recording with, his folk-classical ensemble, Ljova and the Kontraband, or performing in Romashka, a Gypsy band led by his wife, the singer Inna Barmash, he is working on film scores or transcriptions. (He has arranged Indian and Sephardic pieces for the Kronos Quartet; Asian and Eastern European works for Yo-Yo Ma\u2019s Silk Road Project; Schubert and Shostakovich compositions for the Knights, a chamber orchestra).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which gives me the chance to <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/09\/recent-listening-3-east-european-flavoured-miscellany\/\" target=\"_blank\">recommend again<\/a> Ljova and the Kontraband&#8217;s superb album, <em>Mnemosyne<\/em>.\u00a0 They are even better live, if that were possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s NYT carried a profile by Allan Kozinn of Lev Zhurbin (aka Ljova) who featured in a previous post about\u00a0Joe Stickney&#8217;s poetry.\u00a0 From the profile: Lev Zhurbin, the violist, composer and arranger who performs and writes under the name Ljova, almost always has a lot of projects before him. If he isn\u2019t writing for, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-violin","p1","y2010","m08","d08","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}