{"id":18985,"date":"2023-06-08T18:45:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T01:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=18985"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T02:00:47","slug":"george-winston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/08\/george-winston\/","title":{"rendered":"George Winston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Died today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Winston: December - Full Album\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5qGUhWPi6w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NY Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/07\/arts\/music\/george-winston-dead.html\">George Winston, Pianist With a Popular Soothing Sound, Dies at 74<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;He won a Grammy in the new age category, and his top-selling records helped define the genre. But his interests also included Hawaiian guitar and the Doors.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2023\/06\/08\/multimedia\/07Winston1-ctfh\/07Winston1-ctfh-jumbo.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have\/had a couple of his albums, which I liked well enough, though his music tended to be almost bland, lounge music. In the 1970s and &#8217;80s I gravitated to other somewhat more complex composers, from Vangelis to Philip Glass.<\/p>\n<p>He personified the kind of music played in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s on one LA&#8217;s independent radio stations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpfk.org\/\">KPFK<\/a> (which also ran the long-running science fiction talk show <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hour_25\">Hour 25<\/a>) I think, had a late night program called Music from the Hearts of Space &#8212; now <a href=\"https:\/\/v4.hos.com\/home\">Hearts of Space<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;Welcome to the world&#8217;s most lovingly curated collection of Ambient, Space, and Contemplative music from around the world and across the centuries \u2014 a resource for calm, concentration and deep listening since 1983.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was another world that people had discovered in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s, and it&#8217;s mostly been absorbed into popular culture by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Died today. NY Times: George Winston, Pianist With a Popular Soothing Sound, Dies at 74, subtitled &#8220;He won a Grammy in the new age category, and his top-selling records helped define the genre. But his interests also included Hawaiian guitar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2023\/06\/08\/george-winston\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18990,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18985\/revisions\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}