{"id":549,"date":"2018-03-21T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=549"},"modified":"2018-03-21T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:00:06","slug":"joyce-didonato-uconn-an-extraordinary-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/joyce-didonato-uconn-an-extraordinary-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce DiDonato @UConn &#8211; an extraordinary night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the privilege of attending a recital by <a href=\"https:\/\/joycedidonato.com\/\">Joyce DiDonato<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/jorgensen.uconn.edu\/Online\/default.asp?menu_id=5A16B5CC-1FF7-4875-921B-4EA7D913F6D5\">Jorgensen Auditorium<\/a>. It was an extraordinary night. I won&#8217;t try to describe it, except to say that the third encore &#8211; yes, <strong><em>third<\/em><\/strong> encore &#8211; was breathtaking. Her Kansas roots were showing as she sang &#8220;Somewhere over the rainbow.&#8221; I don&#8217;t recall ever hearing such an extraordinary vocal performance, not even when I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/reneefleming.com\/\">Renee Fleming<\/a> perform at the <a href=\"https:\/\/bushnell.org\/\">Bushnell Performing Arts Center<\/a> several years ago. The YouTube video below will give you some idea, but nothing can substitute for the privilege of seeing Joyce DiDonato sing &#8220;Somewhere over the rainbow&#8221; live.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fXCknbE9K1s?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had the privilege of attending a recital by Joyce DiDonato at the Jorgensen Auditorium. It was an extraordinary night. I won&#8217;t try to describe it, except to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/joyce-didonato-uconn-an-extraordinary-night\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}