{"id":14427,"date":"2016-12-30T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2016-12-30T08:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:07:21","slug":"james-depreist-conducting-in-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/30\/james-depreist-conducting-in-1966\/","title":{"rendered":"James DePreist conducting in 1966"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just became aware of this video from the New York Philharmonic&#8217;s Young People&#8217;s Concerts. It was filmed in 1966. Leonard Bernstein introduces the conductor for Mussorgsky&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Pictures at an Exhibition<\/em> &#8211; the young James DePreist (he was 30 years old at the time). It&#8217;s amazing to see all the mannerisms that I grew to love (and some not so much) nearly\u00a030 years later when I joined the Oregon Symphony. What a remarkable and beautiful human being he was.<\/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\/dB4jM3tlXgU?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>I just became aware of this video from the New York Philharmonic&#8217;s Young People&#8217;s Concerts. It was filmed in 1966. Leonard Bernstein introduces the conductor for Mussorgsky&#8217;s\u00a0Pictures at an Exhibition &#8211; the young James DePreist (he was 30 years old at the time). It&#8217;s amazing to see all the mannerisms that I grew to love [&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":true,"_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":[299,2,13],"tags":[3826,156,2281,91,3827,3825],"class_list":["post-14427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-the-orchestra-world","category-video","tag-3826","tag-james-depreist","tag-leonard-bernstein","tag-new-york-philharmonic","tag-pictures-at-an-exhibition","tag-young-peoples-concerts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3KH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14280,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/15\/ginette-depreist-donates-marion-anderson-lincoln-memorial-outfit-to-new-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":14427,"position":0},"title":"Ginette Depreist donates Marion Anderson Lincoln Memorial outfit to new museum","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you take a look at the online edition of the New York Times, you'll find a wonderful walkthrough of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. 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