{"id":1249,"date":"2008-10-09T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T22:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:05:11","slug":"fix-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/fix-this\/","title":{"rendered":"fix this!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(this came to my attention care of Sam’s excellent blog<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

Nico Muhly has an interesting game that he played with the New York Philharmonic’s season opener – which was:<\/p>\n

Berlioz Roman Carnival<\/em> Overture
\nIbert Flute Concerto<\/em>
\nTchaikovsky Symphony No. 4<\/p>\n

They initially decided to try to make the program worse, which it seems they weren’t able to bring themselves to do, then they tried to make it better in terms of what they want to see in the concert hall, namely a mix of new and old in interesting combinations.<\/p>\n

It’s a good mental exercise, and one that could be made with any set of programs.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the upcoming OSO programs – is there one that has you scratching your head?\u00c2\u00a0 How would you make it better and more interesting for you?<\/p>\n

Read Muhly’s entire entry here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(this came to my attention care of Sam’s excellent blog) Nico Muhly has an interesting game that he played with the New York Philharmonic’s season opener – which was: Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture Ibert Flute Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 They initially decided to try to make the program worse, which it seems they weren’t […]<\/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":[148,225,115,2],"tags":[120,91,1042,323],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-bloggers","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical-music","tag-new-york-philharmonic","tag-nico-muhly","tag-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-k9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4255,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/this-weeks-ipod-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":1249,"position":0},"title":"this week’s ipod mix","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a the recordings that I'm planning on listening to this week (finally - time to do some listening!): Ian Bostridge - Songs of Faure, Debussy & Poulenc with Belcea Quartet, Julius Drake and Leon Bosch Richard Danielpour: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4 American String Quartet Bartok:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "recordings"","block_context":{"text":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/recordings-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ir?t=dailyobservat-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0002XDOFI","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21209,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/01\/viola-for-holy-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":1249,"position":1},"title":"viola for holy week","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Last spring, the Oregon Symphony presented a series of video productions that were a brainchild of the OSO's Creative Chair Gabriel Kahane and director Holcombe Waller. 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