{"id":174,"date":"2017-06-20T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/?p=174"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:05:11","slug":"lgem-the-music-of-robert-david-billington-and-friends-promo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/2017\/06\/20\/lgem-the-music-of-robert-david-billington-and-friends-promo-video\/","title":{"rendered":"LGEM &#8211; The Music of Robert David Billington and Friends Promo Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Media Consultant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AndeeMedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">AndeeMedia.com<\/a>, decided that it was high time for a promo video for my LGEM musical groups and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The musical backdrop for the video is the LGEM Duo video recording of <em>Atrevidinha<\/em> a choro from Brazil by Ernesto Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p>LGEM, for those in the know, is an acronym for Latin Gringo Elevator Music. <\/p>\n<p>My first demo tape of pop music in Miami (ca. 1989) was a compilation of popular and Latin music selections performed with flute, guitar, and conga. One initial listener likened the sound to &#8220;Elevator Music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, okay, my brain stormed, &#8220;Hmm. Elevator Music. Huh! Wait, I&#8217;m a Gringo, the guitarist and the percussionist are both Latin. Why not Latin Gringo Elevator Music!?!&#8221; And a whole new musical genre was born. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you like the video, please note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AndeeMedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">AndeeMedia.com<\/a> is available for photo and video editing at very reasonable rates.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBdAEv00BkA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Media Consultant, AndeeMedia.com, decided that it was high time for a promo video for my LGEM musical groups and teaching. The musical backdrop for the video is the LGEM Duo video recording of Atrevidinha a choro from Brazil by Ernesto Nazareth. LGEM, for those in the know, is an acronym for Latin Gringo Elevator Music. My first demo tape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flute-performances","category-fluteteaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdbflute.com\/RDBfluteBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}