{"id":12590,"date":"2013-04-15T16:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2013-04-15T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:52:51","slug":"sir-colin-davis-1927-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/15\/sir-colin-davis-1927-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"sir colin davis (1927-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cConductors, are paid to think, and that\u2019s what the job should be about: sitting at home thinking: What is this piece? How can I set it up to sound its best and live on, because there\u2019s nothing to replace it with just yet?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cConductors, are paid to think, and that\u2019s what the job should be about: sitting at home thinking: What is this piece? How can I set it up to sound its best and live on, because there\u2019s nothing to replace it with just yet?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":12591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[3333],"class_list":["post-12590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conducting","tag-sir-colin-davis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/sircolindavis.jpg?fit=500%2C335&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3934,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/31\/higdon-percussion-concerto-wins-grammy\/","url_meta":{"origin":12590,"position":0},"title":"higdon percussion concerto wins grammy","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto (which will be performed by Colin Currie and the Oregon Symphony next season) has won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition!\u00a0 The recording which was nominated and won featured Colin Currie and Marin Alsop with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.\u00a0 It's available on the London\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "contemporary"","block_context":{"text":"contemporary","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/contemporary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5734,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/20\/jennifer-higdon-in-portland\/","url_meta":{"origin":12590,"position":1},"title":"jennifer higdon in portland","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Jennifer Higdon, who has a familial connection to Portland, will be returning to oversee the Oregon Symphony rehearsals and performances of her Percussion Concerto (2005), with percussion superstar Colin Currie.\u00a0 It will be a great pleasure to see her, and I hope to have some sort of special blog feature\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "composition"","block_context":{"text":"composition","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/composition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/resolutions_higdon-400x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3964,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/higdon-percussion-concerto\/","url_meta":{"origin":12590,"position":2},"title":"higdon percussion concerto","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"On heels of the Percussion Concerto receiving a GRAMMY, and its being programmed on next year's Oregon Symphony season, I thought it might be nice to get a preview. \u00a0Here's Colin Currie (who will play the piece here in Portland) with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. 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