{"id":79918,"date":"2021-09-02T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=79918"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:59:13","slug":"a-mighty-chinful-great-moments-in-composer-facial-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/a-mighty-chinful-great-moments-in-composer-facial-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mighty Chinful: Great Moments in Composer Facial Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

In celebration of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>World Beard Day<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(<\/span>observed<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>every year\u00a0<\/span>on the\u00a0<\/span>first Saturday\u00a0<\/span>of September), Warren Black, your morning host at All Classical, felt it was time for a retrospective on some <\/span>great moments in composers\u2019 facial hair. That’s<\/span>\u00a0why\u00a0<\/span>he teamed up with\u00a0<\/span>Emma Riggle, All Classical\u2019s Music Researcher,\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>assemble <\/span>this chronological gallery of <\/span>fine classical beards,\u00a0<\/span>bristles, ‘<\/span>staches<\/span>, mutton<\/span>\u00a0(and\/or lamb)<\/span>\u00a0chops and more.<\/span>\u00a0Here is their\u00a0<\/span>hail to the\u00a0<\/span>laudably<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>hirsute<\/span>\u00a0mugs<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of music history,\u00a0<\/span>with some<\/span>thing for pogonophiles everywhere.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of\u00a0World Beard Day\u00a0(observed\u00a0every year\u00a0on the\u00a0first Saturday\u00a0of September), Warren Black, your morning host at All Classical, felt it was time for a retrospective on some great moments in composers\u2019 facial hair. That’s\u00a0why\u00a0he teamed up with\u00a0Emma Riggle, All Classical\u2019s Music Researcher,\u00a0to\u00a0assemble this chronological gallery of fine classical beards,\u00a0bristles, ‘staches, mutton\u00a0(and\/or lamb)\u00a0chops and more.\u00a0Here is their\u00a0hail … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":79964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 04:24:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110248,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79918\/revisions\/110248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}