{"id":5040,"date":"2013-10-24T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5040"},"modified":"2013-10-24T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:34:15","slug":"music-video-how-vainly-men-themselves-amaze-by-simon-lacy-with-natasha-marsh-jack-liebeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"Music video: &#8220;How Vainly Men Themselves Amaze&#8221; by Simon Lacy with Natasha Marsh &#038; Jack Liebeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonlaceymusic.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Lacey<\/a> has released a new video for the project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquarterofamillionmiles.com\/#home\" target=\"_d\">A Quarter Of A Million Miles<\/a>, which was inspired by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Collins_%28astronaut%29\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Collins<\/a>\u2019 famous book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374531943?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0374531943\" target=\"_d\">Carrying The Fire<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in which Collins described his role as the Command Module pilot during the Apollo 11 mission. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3505\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><em>How Vainly Men Themselves Amaze<\/em> features soprano <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natashamarsh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Marsh<\/a> and violinist <a href=\"http:\/\/jackliebeck.squarespace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Liebeck<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1j-Y3ZRqj8s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Simon describes the project here:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cIdc-psEZEg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here is the video released earlier this year titled <em>The Thought of Floating In Space<\/em>\u00a0with Liebeck on solo violin:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6RiezMYor8s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Lacey has released a new video for the project\u00a0A Quarter Of A Million Miles, which was inspired by\u00a0Michael Collins\u2019 famous book\u00a0Carrying The Fire\u00a0in which Collins described his role as the Command Module pilot during the Apollo 11 mission. (See earlier post here.) How Vainly Men Themselves Amaze features soprano Natasha Marsh and violinist Jack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music video: &#8220;How Vainly Men Themselves Amaze&#8221; by Simon Lacy with Natasha Marsh &#038; Jack Liebeck<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-arts","category-space-films-and-videos","category-space-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1ji","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3505,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3505","url_meta":{"origin":5040,"position":0},"title":"Music video: &#8220;The Thought of Floating in Space&#8221; by Simon Lacey with violinist Jack Liebeck","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Composer Simon Lacey points me to his new music video, The Thought of Floating In Space with Jack Liebeck on solo violin. 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