{"id":14225,"date":"2016-08-27T12:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14225"},"modified":"2016-08-27T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T19:11:11","slug":"my-fall-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/27\/my-fall-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"my fall preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14227\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/27\/my-fall-preview\/img_7800\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7800-e1472325034680.jpg?fit=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7800\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7800-e1472325034680.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_7800-e1472325034680.jpg?resize=400%2C533\" alt=\"IMG_7800\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s right at the end of August, Portland has had temps at or above 100\u00b0F several times, the homegrown tomatoes are ripening, and the usual early bird maple trees are already starting to get some color on their leaves. That means that the fall arts season must be right around the corner.<\/p>\n<h3>Third Angle<\/h3>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdangle.org\">Third Angle New Music<\/a>, we&#8217;re already hard at work on Steve <em>Reich&#8217;s Triple<\/em> Quartet (1999), which we&#8217;ll be playing at the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s day of local music performances at the site of the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/orsymphony.org\/edu\/waterfront.aspx\">Waterfront Concert<\/a>\u00a0on Sept 1st. That will be a preview for our concert on <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdangle.org\/2016-17-season\/different-trains\/\">Sept. 30\/Oct. 1<\/a> at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. Also on the program, two other quartets by Reich, his masterpiece\u00a0<em>Different Trains<\/em> (1988), and his reaction to the events of September 11,\u00a0<em>WTC 9\/11\u00a0<\/em>(2010). It will be an amazing concert for all of us.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/orsymphony.org\/edu\/waterfront.aspx\">Oregon Symphony Waterfront Concert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thirdangle.org\/2016-17-season\/different-trains\/\">Third Angle New Music <em>Different Trains<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Oregon Symphony<\/h3>\n<p>The evening of Sept 1, the Oregon Symphony takes to the outdoor stage at Tom McCall Waterfront Park to play our traditional Waterfront Concert. We&#8217;ll be playing a variety of light and serious classical works, partnered with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Opera, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic, and\u00a0Alpha Battery 218th Field Artillery of the Oregon National Guard. It will also be simulcast live on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/spotlights\/waterfront-concert-live-broadcast\/\">AllClassical Portland<\/a> (89.9FM), hosted by Suzanne Nance and Robert McBride.<\/p>\n<p>The season pretty much starts with a bang (literally, fireworks and canons), and keeps going like crazy for the first few months. Here are some of the highlights that I&#8217;m particularly looking forward to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ren\u00e9e Fleming sings Strauss&#8217;\u00a0<em>Four Last Songs<\/em> on our season opener, Sept. 10.<\/li>\n<li>Bart\u00f3k&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Bluebeard&#8217;s Castle<\/em> with sets by glass artist Dale Chihuly, Sept. 24-26.<\/li>\n<li>Music of David Bowie, Sept. 29.<\/li>\n<li>Sibelius Symphony No. 3 and Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto, Oct. 8-10.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ein Heldenleben<\/em> and percussionist Colin Currie plays Andrew Norman, Oct. 22-24.<\/li>\n<li><em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>, Nov. 10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out about these and all of the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s other concerts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orsymphony.org\">www.orsymphony.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Arnica Quartet<\/h3>\n<p>My quartet, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnicaquartet.com\/calendar\/\">Arnica Quartet<\/a>, is playing a midday concert at the University of Portland on Wednesday, November 2 at 12:30pm. We&#8217;ll be performing Webern&#8217;s early and Romantic\u00a0<em>Langsamer satz<\/em>, and Beethoven&#8217;s Op. 131 quartet in C-sharp minor.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a lot going on this fall, I hope you can join me for at least some of what I&#8217;m doing!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14226\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/27\/my-fall-preview\/noble_sig\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/noble_sig.jpg?fit=100%2C47&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"100,47\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"noble_sig\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/noble_sig.jpg?fit=100%2C47&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/noble_sig.jpg?resize=100%2C47\" alt=\"noble_sig\" width=\"100\" height=\"47\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s right at the end of August, Portland has had temps at or above 100\u00b0F several times, the homegrown tomatoes are ripening, and the usual early bird maple trees are already starting to get some color on their leaves. That means that the fall arts season must be right around the corner. Third Angle Over [&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":[3484,269,503,2],"tags":[2582,3668,3471],"class_list":["post-14225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-preview","category-new-music","category-string-quartet","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-arnica-quartet","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-third-angle-new-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3Hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13011,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/19\/third-angle-gabby\/","url_meta":{"origin":14225,"position":0},"title":"third angle &#038; gabby","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 19, 2013","format":"image","excerpt":"We had two nights of terrific concerts at Third Angle this Thursday and Friday, and this is a photo from the finale of Friday night's concert. 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