{"id":14006,"date":"2004-08-11T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/stairway-to-heaven-suite\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T16:50:00","slug":"stairway-to-heaven-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/stairway-to-heaven-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Stairway To Heaven Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.unsw.edu.au\/~jw\/Stairway.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Stairway Suite<\/a>, which includes MP3 sound clips of Led Zeppelin&rsquo;s <i>Stairway to Heaven<\/i> as it might sound if written by Schubert, Holzt, Glenn Miller, Mahler, Bizet, and Beethoven:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Led Zeppelin song &ldquo;Stairway to Heaven&rdquo; is a rock classic for some critics. Whether or not you agree, its notoriety is assured by the thousands of would-be guitarists who can play the first dozen bars badly: it is to the guitar what &ldquo;Chopsticks&rdquo; is to the piano. But what if Jimmy Page &amp; Robert Plant hadn&rsquo;t written it? What if it had been written for orchestra in the 19th or 20th centuries? For a publicity stunt, &ldquo;The Stairway Suite&rdquo; was commissioned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.unsw.edu.au\/~jw\/orchestra.html\" target=\"_blank\">University of New South Wales Orchestra<\/a> and written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.unsw.edu.au\/~jw\/Joe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Wolfe<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the interpretations are more, um, interesting than others&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109224300263309350?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out The Stairway Suite, which includes MP3 sound clips of Led Zeppelin&rsquo;s Stairway to Heaven as it might sound if written by Schubert, Holzt, Glenn Miller, Mahler, Bizet, and Beethoven: The Led Zeppelin song &ldquo;Stairway to Heaven&rdquo; is a rock classic for some critics. Whether or not you agree, its notoriety is assured by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/11\/stairway-to-heaven-suite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stairway To Heaven Suite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}