{"id":13792,"date":"2015-07-09T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2015-07-09T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:01:57","slug":"may-the-viola-force-be-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/09\/may-the-viola-force-be-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"may the (viola) force be with you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This snippet of video is from the Berlin Philharmonic&#8217;s annual outdoor concert at Berlin&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waldb%C3%BChne\">Waldb\u00fchne<\/a> at the end of June, 2015. They&#8217;re playing the always awesome <em>Main Title<\/em> from Star Wars by John Williams. A couple of things to notice: the violist at the back appears to be using a highly unusual bow (it truly could saw the viola in half if one wasn&#8217;t careful!), and French hornist Sarah Willis appears to have done a loose Princess Leia side bun. Love those Berliners!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3qqHdiewSE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This snippet of video is from the Berlin Philharmonic&#8217;s annual outdoor concert at Berlin&#8217;s\u00a0Waldb\u00fchne at the end of June, 2015. They&#8217;re playing the always awesome Main Title from Star Wars by John Williams. A couple of things to notice: the violist at the back appears to be using a highly unusual bow (it truly could [&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":[2,13],"tags":[310,3536,3645,3644,3642,3643],"class_list":["post-13792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","category-video","tag-berlin-philharmonic","tag-john-williams","tag-light-sabre","tag-sarah-willis","tag-simon-rattle","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3As","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":181,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/26\/programming-games\/","url_meta":{"origin":13792,"position":0},"title":"programming games","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm in the process of figuring out what to play on a planned spring recital, and it's made me think a lot about the largely forgotten art of programming - the act of picking what pieces will be on a concert.I was poking through some of my music that I\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":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":651,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/09\/new-principal-viola-for-la\/","url_meta":{"origin":13792,"position":1},"title":"new principal viola for LA","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Carrie Dennis, currently one of the principal violists of the Berlin Philharmonic (you might have seen her on the front desk for Monday's broadcast of the BPO's Mahler 9 with Simon Rattle), has been hired as the new principal viola of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 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See\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/05iUOXkzvM8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5760,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/01\/shreddin\/","url_meta":{"origin":13792,"position":3},"title":"shreddin&#8217;","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"There are some clever people in this world.\u00a0 Do you remember the \"Yo-Yo Shreds at the Inauguration\" vid that popped up on YouTube? 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