{"id":1689,"date":"2009-01-07T14:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2009-01-07T22:42:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T06:42:56","slug":"rehearsal-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/07\/rehearsal-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"rehearsal technique???"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given that string players are most likely to complain about what they perceive as bad rehearsal technique on the part of a conductor, how about seeing what happens when they try to do it themselves?\u00c2\u00a0 Not typical of a string quartet rehearsal, but things start to get unwieldy when you’ve got eight players all of whom are facing the same direction!<\/p>\n

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\nQuicktime movie courtesy of Jo\u00c3\u00abl Belgique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given that string players are most likely to complain about what they perceive as bad rehearsal technique on the part of a conductor, how about seeing what happens when they try to do it themselves?\u00c2\u00a0 Not typical of a string quartet rehearsal, but things start to get unwieldy when you’ve got eight players all of […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,115,1046,137,2],"tags":[1219,23,318,1218],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-music","category-pops-music","category-popular-music-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-harvey-rosencranz-orchestra","tag-pink-martini","tag-rehearsal","tag-walt-disney-concert-hall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-rf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1215,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/03\/lang-lang-is-good\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":0},"title":"lang lang is… good!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo: \u00c2\u00a9 Felix Broede \/ Deutsche Grammophone Well, for the orchestra, the anticipation came to an end around 11:00 a.m. this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The unassuming, young, Armani-clad Asian pianist strode onto the stage, was introduced to the orchestra to polite applause, and then proceeded to mesmerize much of the orchestra with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/lang-lang3_felix-broede_sm.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1284,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/16\/pesky-string-players\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":1},"title":"pesky string players","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Bassist Michael Hovnanian, member of a Major Midwestern Orchestra With a Notably Loud Brass Section, wrote a hilarious description of guest conductor Jaap van Zweeden rehearsing Bruckner's Fifth Symphony: The Dutch violinist turned conductor spent more rehearsal time than normal dealing with the strings; in a work such as the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "bloggers"","block_context":{"text":"bloggers","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/bloggers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7842,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/14\/questions-anyone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":2},"title":"questions, anyone?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to go out on a bit of a limb here, and address something that has been a sore point for some of us at the Oregon Symphony. 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