{"id":353,"date":"2016-04-24T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/24\/a-talent-lost-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-24T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:13:00","slug":"a-talent-lost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/a-talent-lost-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A Talent Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div>\n\u201cGood night sweet prince: And flocks of angels sing thee to<br \/>\nthy rest.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wm. Shakespeare<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nUnless you are residing on another planet, you will have<br \/>\nheard of the untimely death of the music superstar Prince.&nbsp; He has been called \u201ciconic\u201d, enigmatic, and,<br \/>\nabove all, supremely talented.&nbsp; Prince<br \/>\nwas a composer, performer, musician and choreographer.&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nAs I watched TV footage of some of his many concerts and<br \/>\nperformances spanning the decades from the 1980\u2019s, I was struck not only by his<br \/>\nmusical prowess, but his ability to transform a concert into a magical, often<br \/>\noverwhelming experience.&nbsp; It could never<br \/>\nbe said that the artist was boring, dull nor uninspiring.&nbsp; Part of this mystique came with the<br \/>\ncostuming of his productions.&nbsp; I am,<br \/>\nafter all, inspired by textiles and costuming and stage presentations<br \/>\nfeaturing, what were, in the beginning of his career, considered, by some, to<br \/>\nbe well over-the-top.&nbsp; Many a \u201ctsk\u201d<br \/>\ncould be heard when describing his outrageous and flamboyant use of dress ( or<br \/>\nin some cases, undress).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Today we are<br \/>\nused to the pyrotechnics, elaborate costuming and gyratic choreography<br \/>\npreformed at every sports event, awards ceremony or ribbon cutting<br \/>\ndedication.&nbsp; In light of today\u2019s<br \/>\nstandards there would have be few raised eyebrows by his provocative stage<br \/>\nperformances.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\nI heard one of&nbsp; his<br \/>\ncostume designers interviewed who expressed the joy of working with such a<br \/>\ntalented, artistic mindset.&nbsp; Prince<br \/>\nRogers Nelson was an original.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood night sweet prince: And flocks of angels sing thee to thy rest.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wm. Shakespeare Unless you are residing on another planet, you will have heard of the untimely death of the music superstar Prince.&nbsp; He has been called \u201ciconic\u201d, enigmatic, and, above all, supremely talented.&nbsp; Prince was a composer, performer, musician and choreographer.&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}