{"id":3102,"date":"2003-05-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/20\/2003-05-20-washington-state-hosts-tyagaraja-music-festival\/"},"modified":"2003-05-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-20T12:00:00","slug":"2003-05-20-washington-state-hosts-tyagaraja-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/20\/2003-05-20-washington-state-hosts-tyagaraja-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Hosts Tyagaraja Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/P><P>RICHLAND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., May 5, 2003: Members of the India Association of the Tri-Cities took part in the 16th annual Tyagaraja Music Festival at Timbers Apartments in Richland, Washington. About a dozen musicians sat on the floor in the clubhouse singing and playing the music of the great composer, Tyagaraja Shishyaparmpara, more commonly known as Saint Tyagaraja. &#8220;There is lots of ornamentation in East Indian music&#8221; said Shas Mattigod of Richland. &#8220;The music we perform here today is from southern India.&#8221; For nearly 150 years, Hindus around the world have celebrated Saint Tyagaraja&#8217;s life and music. He wrote more than 900 complete compositions during his lifetime from 1767 to 1847. &#8220;Tyagaraja created all forms of music, from love songs to spirituals,&#8221; Mattigod said. &#8220;Like Mozart, he was clearly a genius.&#8221;<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated PressRICHLAND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., May 5, 2003: Members of the India Association of the Tri-Cities took part in the 16th,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}