{"id":8813,"date":"2021-04-19T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2021-05-18T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:19:15","slug":"riding-the-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8813","title":{"rendered":"Riding the Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much has been said and written about Virginia Woolf&#8217;s 1931 novel <em>The Waves<\/em>, and as the 90th anniversary of its publication approaches, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000v7z3\" target=\"_blank\"> BBC Radio 3 featured<\/a> on Sunday (&amp; perhaps only available for a limited time) a programme focusing on the musical, lyrical attributes of this, perhaps her moodiest, most experimental work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To begin with, I was intrigued by Woolf&#8217;s novel having been the inspiration behind <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Harley\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Harley&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Riding the Waves&#8221; from 1978. That was a long time ago, and listening to it now there is a familiarity; whether because of a recognisable turn of phrase or the rhythms of  Cockney Rebel I am not sure &#8211; a definite Woolf connection I remember absolutely not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ITvFUW9P5-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Riding the Waves, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Harley readily admits, he takes the words out of Woolf&#8217;s mouth, or rather from the pages of her novel, but it is a warm tribute to a long dead female writer who quite obviously touched the soul of a young vagabond minstrel in the wayward 70s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Different is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxrichtermusic.com\/?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=maxrichtermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Max Richter&#8217;s<\/a> composition <em>XVI. The Waves: Tuesday<\/em> (from <em>Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works<\/em>, Deutsche Grammophon, 2015) that brought to an end <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/waynemcgregor.com\/productions\/woolf-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne McGregor&#8217;s<\/a> 2015 ballet &#8220;Woolf Works&#8221; for The Royal Ballet. A beautiful contemporary piece that fuses elements from the classical with  electronic acoustics to capture the essence of the novel &#8211; and Virginia Woolf&#8217;s life. Listen well;  imagine the ebb and flow of tides, the waters lapping and seeping through sand and upon rocks, clouds scuttling across the sky above. Just like the characters in her novel as they traverse time, waves are forever in motion &#8211; rising and falling, drawing near and receding into the distance. Becoming but a memory of their former self &#8230; only to reassemble and reemerge again. A haunting reminder of time past and the promise of rebirth. Richter&#8217;s musical meditation re-imagines the rhythm of nature and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Richter: XVI. The Waves: Tuesday\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WWKS1ws71eU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>XVI. The Waves: Tuesday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the prologue? <em>Tuesday<\/em>. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8529\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8529\" target=\"_blank\">Written in her famous hand on the upper right hand corner<\/a> of that final note; known to touch even the most hardened amongst us. Beautifully spoken by Gillian Anderson, perhaps capturing the sonorous quality of Woolf&#8217;s voice that also has its place in legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been said and written about Virginia Woolf&#8217;s 1931 novel The Waves, and as the 90th anniversary of its publication approaches, BBC Radio 3 featured on Sunday (&amp; perhaps only available for a limited time) a programme focusing on the musical, lyrical attributes of this, perhaps her moodiest, most experimental work. To begin with, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=8813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Riding the Waves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,3,21,22],"tags":[230,228,229,227],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-books","category-video","category-virginia-woolf","tag-bbc-radio-3","tag-max-richter","tag-steve-harley","tag-the-waves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}