{"id":769,"date":"2009-11-09T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2009-11-09T18:03:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T23:03:31","slug":"music-at-the-morris-jumel-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"Music at the Morris-Jumel Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, blow me down.  For ten years they&#8217;ve been putting on concerts at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in upper Manhattan, and no one told me until now (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemsny.org\/\">GEMS<\/a>).  Apparently the oldest still-standing residence in the city, the mansion was Washington&#8217;s headquarters in 1776 and is a museum now, with period furnishings from the 18th and 19th century including some things that belonged to the Jumels themselves.  My grandmother wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madame-Jumel-Pauline-Panzer\/dp\/B0007F5SGY\/\">historical novel about Madame Jumel<\/a> (long since out of print) but I had never visited the mansion until this past Saturday, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisapeimer.com\/\">Elisa<\/a> and I took that long ride on the #1 train to check out the museum and see a concert, held in the room where they used to have concerts two centuries ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/s421.photobucket.com\/albums\/pp297\/jsobel123\/?action=view&#038;current=Morris-Jumel_Mansion.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i421.photobucket.com\/albums\/pp297\/jsobel123\/Morris-Jumel_Mansion.jpg\" alt=\"nyc\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; margin: 10px; float: left\"\/><\/a> The concert featured the Brooklyn Baroque, a marvelous trio, who performed a program called &#8220;Bach and His Contemporaries.&#8221;  Baroque flutist Andrew Bolotowsky (whom I&#8217;ve seen before, I think with Muse) and baroque cellist David Bakamjian were masterful.  A special treat was hearing the harpsichord so clearly.  Rebecca Pechefsky plays with feeling and a sure touch, but so often in early music concerts in larger halls the harpsichord is barely audible.  Not here.<\/p>\n<p>Another cool thing about early music concerts: we get to be among the youngest people there.  That doesn&#8217;t happen too much anymore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, blow me down. For ten years they&#8217;ve been putting on concerts at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, in upper Manhattan, and no one told me until now (thanks GEMS). Apparently the oldest still-standing residence in the city, the mansion was Washington&#8217;s headquarters in 1776 and is a museum now, with period furnishings from the 18th and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music at the Morris-Jumel Mansion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}