{"id":1975,"date":"2009-02-23T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2009-02-24T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T16:41:58","slug":"busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/23\/busy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"busy week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got so much to do this week that it&#8217;s likely that the posts will be spotty during this time, so stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, this being the bicentenary of Mendelssohn&#8217;s birth, I&#8217;m going to do a bit of show and tell about two of his teen-year masterpieces: the String Quartet in A minor, op. 13 and the Octet, op. 20.\u00c2\u00a0 That post should happen sometime this week as I burn the midnight oil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"264\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kZUPCB9533Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kZUPCB9533Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Llamas with Hats (warning: <strong>not<\/strong> for the squeamish)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got so much to do this week that it&#8217;s likely that the posts will be spotty during this time, so stay tuned&#8230; Also, this being the bicentenary of Mendelssohn&#8217;s birth, I&#8217;m going to do a bit of show and tell about two of his teen-year masterpieces: the String Quartet in A minor, op. 13 [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[183,1],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-news","tag-mendelssohn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-vR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14350,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/22\/arnica-quartet-robert-winter-of-beethoven-op-131\/","url_meta":{"origin":1975,"position":0},"title":"arnica quartet: robert winter on beethoven op 131","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A fantastic look at why the op. 131 quartet is such a great work in a terrific mini-lecture by UCLA professor Robert Winter. 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