{"id":12599,"date":"2013-04-18T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2013-04-18T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:13:28","slug":"ivan-fischer-on-orchestras-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/18\/ivan-fischer-on-orchestras-today\/","title":{"rendered":"ivan fischer on orchestras today"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was my favorite bit of the relatively brief article from the London Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have this strange situation where the period ensembles have taken over the really early music, say up to Mozart,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd on the other side you have new music ensembles who play only that. The standard orchestras find that their repertoire is always shrinking. In the future the orchestra will have to think in a different way \u2013 it can\u2019t forever be this rigid formation of 100 players fixed in one role.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was my favorite bit of the relatively brief article from the London Telegraph: \u201cWe have this strange situation where the period ensembles have taken over the really early music, say up to Mozart,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd on the other side you have new music ensembles who play only that. The standard orchestras find that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3341,3340],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-budapest-festival-orchestra","tag-ivan-fischer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3hd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6901,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/15\/smaller-orchestras-matter-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":12599,"position":0},"title":"smaller orchestras matter more","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"At least that's what Bill Eddins says in his post from Thursday where he talks about how important it is for smaller ensembles to maintain that all-important personal connection with their audience. 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