{"id":14490,"date":"2017-05-21T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2017-05-21T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T23:20:15","slug":"a-mahler-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/21\/a-mahler-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"a mahler for the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick\u00a0bulletin: if you don&#8217;t have plans for this Monday night (May 22), make a point of coming out to the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s closing classical concert of the season: Mahler&#8217;s Second Symphony. Judging by how the first two performances have gone, this final one should be epic. Onstage brass, offstage brass, brilliant woodwinds, amazing vocal soloists, teeming masses of roiling strings, a huge chorus &#8211; this piece has got it all. And to that guy who let out the &#8220;Whoop!&#8221; after the end of the first movement today, glad you could make it, and glad you loved it, buddy!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy some of the &#8216;big&#8217; moments from various conductors:<\/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\/OoZdwam7wgw?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<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tickets.orsymphony.org\/single\/psDetail.aspx?psn=3194\">Oregon Symphony tickets website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick\u00a0bulletin: if you don&#8217;t have plans for this Monday night (May 22), make a point of coming out to the Oregon Symphony&#8217;s closing classical concert of the season: Mahler&#8217;s Second Symphony. Judging by how the first two performances have gone, this final one should be epic. Onstage brass, offstage brass, brilliant woodwinds, amazing vocal soloists, [&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":[3828,3668],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-mahler-symphony-no-2","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3LI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14106,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/25\/post-season-thoughts\/","url_meta":{"origin":14490,"position":0},"title":"post-season thoughts","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I was musing over this past weekend's performances of Mahler's Third, and there were quite a few remarkable things\/moments that came up - so I thought I'd share them here. In no particular order: James Shields (principal clarinet) has the most amazing clarinet sound I've ever heard. Martha Long's (principal\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":"Oregon Symphony | Photo: \u00a9 Charles Noble","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_0290-e1464230460632.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_0290-e1464230460632.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_0290-e1464230460632.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_0290-e1464230460632.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8006,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/03\/program-notes-for-this-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":14490,"position":1},"title":"program notes for this weekend","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a link to my notes for this weekend's concerts of the Oregon Symphony - Schubert's Incidental Music to Rosamunde and Mahler's Sixth Symphony. 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Case in point: If someone gave me a sledgehammer, my first impulse would be to enter Ned Lannamann's pathetic cubicle at the\u00a0Mercury\u00a0offices\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":635,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/03\/berlin-phil-mahler-9-on-opb\/","url_meta":{"origin":14490,"position":5},"title":"berlin phil mahler 9 on opb","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Oregon Public Broadcasting will present Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in their performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony (from a performance at Carnegie Hall this past fall) along with bits of performances by Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. 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