{"id":1902,"date":"2009-02-12T16:23:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T00:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:30:30","slug":"life-in-the-fast-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/12\/life-in-the-fast-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"life in the fast lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Normally, the life of a professional symphonic musician is fairly low-key and predictable.\u00c2\u00a0 You know what you’re going to be playing and when it’s going to be played a year ahead of time.\u00c2\u00a0 You get your parts several weeks in advance and you judge when you’re going to start practicing them and how much time it will take.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes you can stroll into rehearsal with just a cursory glance at the parts (when you’ve played the pieces before), and sometimes it involves a day-after-day grind of working a particularly difficult piece or program for a couple weeks before the first rehearsal.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I choose to regularly add to my staid workload.\u00c2\u00a0 Much of this involves the Arnica Quartet<\/a>, and then I work on some solo repertoire as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now, I’ve loaded a lot on my plate, for some reason.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a chamber concert<\/a> up in Seattle in March that will involve the Saint-Sa\u00c3\u00abns Piano Quartet and the Vieuxtemps Elegy<\/em> for viola and piano.\u00c2\u00a0 In April<\/a>, there’s quartet repertoire, including two very demanding works: the formidable Fourth Quartet of B\u00c3\u00a9la Bart\u00c3\u00b2k and the incredible A minor Quartet, op. 13 of Mendelssohn (in honor of his bicentenary, I suppose).\u00c2\u00a0 I’m also learning the Paganini La Campanella<\/em> (transcribed from the violin version), taking the Brahms Clarinet Trio back out of the cabinet for another spin, and am choosing other repertoire for a late-Spring recital program.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s starting to add up!<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there is some time off next week to really get some quality practice time in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, the life of a professional symphonic musician is fairly low-key and predictable.\u00c2\u00a0 You know what you’re going to be playing and when it’s going to be played a year ahead of time.\u00c2\u00a0 You get your parts several weeks in advance and you judge when you’re going to start practicing them and how much time […]<\/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":[225,299,115,1,135,2,22],"tags":[1186,3660],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-conducting","category-music","category-news","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","category-viola","tag-quartet","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-uG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5503,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/30\/priceless-viola-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":1902,"position":0},"title":"priceless viola moment","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight we had one of those rare moments that is hilarious and will love on in viola section lore for years to come.\u00a0 At the dress rehearsal this morning, Jo\u00ebl, our principal, decided to have some fun with a melody in the Tchaikovsky First Symphony that is played by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fun"","block_context":{"text":"fun","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/fun\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1129,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/15\/viola-viola\/","url_meta":{"origin":1902,"position":1},"title":"viola, viola","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight I just finished a rehearsal with my longtime friend and stand partner, OSO principal violist Jo\u00ebl Belgique, of George Benjamin's 1997 work for two violas, Viola, viola. 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