{"id":12608,"date":"2013-04-21T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=12608"},"modified":"2013-04-21T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T22:47:55","slug":"random-thoughts-on-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/21\/random-thoughts-on-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"random thoughts on this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 14px;\">It is entirely possible to put way too much pressure on one&#8217;s self as a performer. Sometimes you just have to trust yourself and your colleagues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Just about anything that is done cheaply will turn out to be lacking in quality &#8211; not always &#8211; but more often than not. The additional money spent is worth it in the end.<\/li>\n<li>James Ehnes is a freak of nature. He did not even break a sweat during the Bernstein Serenade performance Saturday night. I, however, did, and in porcine fashion, no less.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike some of my colleagues, I love it when the end of a very soft movement unleashes a volley of coughing. It shows, to me, that they were completely invested in what was happening, and restrained themselves from coughing for the entirety of the movement. Those are special movements, indeed. Such was the Agathon movement of Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s <em>Serenade<\/em> Saturday night. Magical.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/music\/classicalmusic\/9833586\/Coughing-in-classical-concerts-twice-as-likely.html\"> interesting preliminary study<\/a> on coughing in classical performances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HTdQpBlzA-M?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is entirely possible to put way too much pressure on one&#8217;s self as a performer. Sometimes you just have to trust yourself and your colleagues. Just about anything that is done cheaply will turn out to be lacking in quality &#8211; not always &#8211; but more often than not. The additional money spent is [&hellip;]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3hm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8153,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/21\/notes-for-the-end\/","url_meta":{"origin":12608,"position":0},"title":"notes for the end","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This week we tackle two of my favorite pieces for orchestra ever written. 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