{"id":298,"date":"2015-06-09T04:19:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-06-10T04:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:29:46","slug":"rapido-day-1-the-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/rapido-day-1-the-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapido Day 1 &#8211; The Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing the <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidocompositioncontest.com\/\">Rapido composition contest<\/a> again. The composing period started on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>In the the last iteration of the contest, in 2012, I wrote my Dance of the Hoodoos, for oboe, violin, cello and piano. It has had several performances and found a place on my newly released album Through the Mist. So even though I didn&#8217;t win or become a finalist, the effort was creatively productive and rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>I generally don&#8217;t approve of organizations charging composers, or other artists, fees for their creative work, for example submission fees for contests, but especially for the privilege of creating new work. Isn&#8217;t commission money supposed to go to the creator? However, even though Rapido charges a fee ($40 this time &#8212; higher than last time \ud83d\ude41 ), I think the challenge of creating a new piece in two weeks is fun! So I&#8217;m doing it again.\u00a0 I need it right now; it&#8217;s a reason to focus on writing some music. Other cares and responsibilities have filled my time, seemingly endlessly, so I&#8217;ll sign up for this artificial commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing the Rapido composition contest again. The composing period started on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[136,135],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","tag-fees","tag-rapido"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}