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on auditioning

by Charles Noble on November 11, 2009 · 5 comments

Well, it’s been quiet here at the blog for some time, so I thought it might be a good thing to tell you what I’ve been up to.  I went down to Los Angeles this past Sunday to take the audition for the 3rd chair viola position (Assistant principal) of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on [...]

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the dude on PBS – wednesday night

by Charles Noble on October 19, 2009

Gustavo Dudamel’s opening night concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances series Wednesday evening, October 21st, at 9:00 p.m.  Here in Portland, that will be KOPB.

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mid-week news roundup

by Charles Noble on April 29, 2009 · 1 comment

Some very sad news from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose Principal trombonist, Steven Witser, died of a heart attack at the age of 48 on Monday night.
The Ying Quartet is losing its first violinist, resulting in a quartet that will not be all siblings.
The Baltimore Symphony musicians have given $1 million in voluntary wage/benefit [...]

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a pink new year

by Charles Noble on December 30, 2008 · 2 comments

photo: © Charles Noble
This year Heather and I will be ringing in the new year with Pink Martini at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, presented by the LA Philharmonic.  We’ll be part of the Harvey Rosencranz Orchestra, the extra complement of strings that Pink sometimes hauls out of Portland for big shows.

photo: Adam [...]

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snobbery for dummies

by Charles Noble on May 23, 2008 · 1 comment

Columnist Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times has written a great column on how to become an annoying, insufferable, classical music snob.  It’s quite a funny read, and oh so true.  My favorite bit is his concert experience with Mahler’s Sixth Symphony:
I downloaded Leonard Bernstein’s version of Mahler’s Sixth and read the Wikipedia entry [...]

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vancouver conductor goes hollywood

by Charles Noble on March 17, 2008

Bramwell Tovey – photo courtesy IMG Artists
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Bramwell Tovey, music director of the Vancouver (B.C.) Symphony, has been appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. He will conduct the LA Philharmonic for six subscription concerts and one opera during their summer season at the [...]

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carrie dennis plays paganini and schumann

by Charles Noble on January 11, 2008 · 1 comment

Carrie Dennis, the phenomenal violist who has (by the anything but grizzled age of 30!) already been Assistant principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and was just named as Principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has a couple videos up on youtube. See and hear her for [...]

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new principal viola for LA

by Charles Noble on January 9, 2008

Carrie Dennis, currently one of the principal violists of the Berlin Philharmonic (you might have seen her on the front desk for Monday’s broadcast of the BPO’s Mahler 9 with Simon Rattle), has been hired as the new principal viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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