{"id":1177,"date":"2008-09-26T00:21:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T07:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:03:58","slug":"eschenbach-to-national-symphony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/26\/eschenbach-to-national-symphony-2\/","title":{"rendered":"eschenbach to national symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1178\" title=\"eschenbach\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/eschenbach.jpg?resize=350%2C263\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christoph Eschenbach, formerly the embattled music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has taken a position with the National Symphony, which will entail not only being the NSO&#8217;s music director, but also being the music director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.\u00c2\u00a0 Reportedly, this will enable him to curate interdisciplinary festivals in the complex, which includes an opera house, concert hall, recital hall, and theater spaces within its spacious confines.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Washington Post article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/AR2008092504161.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christoph Eschenbach, formerly the embattled music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has taken a position with the National Symphony, which will entail not only being the NSO&#8217;s music director, but also being the music director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.\u00c2\u00a0 Reportedly, this will enable him to curate interdisciplinary festivals in the complex, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[299,115,1,2],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-music","category-news","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-music-director"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-iZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":669,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/17\/eschenbach-to-national-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":0},"title":"eschenbach to national symphony?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently the rumor mill at the Philadelphia Orchestra is buzzing with news that Christoph Eschenbach is due to be named music director of the National Symphony - Peter Dobrin of ArtsWatch reports: That's been the backstage rumor lately at the Philadelphia Orchestra - that the Washington, D.C. ensemble is set\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ml.2.7.gallery.16.thumb.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3140,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/19\/orchestra-news-roundup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":1},"title":"orchestra news roundup","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised - enjoy! 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