{"id":18535,"date":"2020-05-21T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=18535"},"modified":"2020-05-21T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:49:03","slug":"shepherd-on-the-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/21\/shepherd-on-the-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"shepherd on the rocks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" data-attachment-id=\"18536\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/21\/shepherd-on-the-rocks\/screen-shot-2020-05-21-at-4-40-11-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?fit=1400%2C786&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,786\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?fit=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?resize=580%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?resize=200%2C112&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-21-at-4.40.11-PM.png?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week&#8217;s Portland Social Distance Ensemble live stream consists of the wonderful trio of soprano Arwen Myers, clarinetist James Shields, and pianist Maria Garcia. This stellar trio will perform works of Schumann, Bach, and Schubert, including Schubert&#8217;s great art song trio from the end of his life <em>Shepherd on the Rock<\/em>. As always, any donations received will go directly to the performing musicians. The stream begins Friday, May 22 at 6PM Pacific\/9PM Eastern. Head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.45thparallelpdx.org\/\">45th Parallel Universe<\/a> homepage for links to the Facebook and YouTube live streams. Hope you can join us! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Portland Social Distance Ensemble live stream consists of the wonderful trio of soprano Arwen Myers, clarinetist James Shields, and pianist Maria Garcia. This stellar trio will perform works of Schumann, Bach, and Schubert, including Schubert&#8217;s great art song trio from the end of his life Shepherd on the Rock. As always, any donations [&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":[3908,136],"tags":[4005,4004,4006],"class_list":["post-18535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45th-parallel-universe","category-chamber-music","tag-arwen-myers","tag-james-shields","tag-maria-garcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-4OX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20544,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/04\/full-stream-ahead\/","url_meta":{"origin":18535,"position":0},"title":"full stream ahead","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm hard at work getting Classical Currents ready to go live, but in the meantime, here is an example of the initial content you can expect to find there. 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