{"id":1985,"date":"2009-02-26T20:27:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T04:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2009-02-28T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T23:39:07","slug":"inside-the-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/26\/inside-the-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"inside the orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violist Sam Bergman has a great illustration of how different it is to hear an orchestra from the audience&#8217;s point of view than from a seat in the orchestra.\u00c2\u00a0 Sam&#8217;s a violist with the Minnesota Orchestra, which is on a European tour right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Their first stop was the Barbican Centre in London, where the videos were made.\u00c2\u00a0 Sam and his stand partner sound great!\u00c2\u00a0 After listening\/watching these two vids, I guarantee you&#8217;ll wonder how we all manage to do it day in and day out!<\/p>\n<p>Video from the audience <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaorchestra.org\/insidetheclassics\/blog\/2009\/02\/hearing-it-our-way.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video from inside the orchestra:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v7Mx9wD7SwQ&amp;eurl\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v7Mx9wD7SwQ&amp;eurl\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violist Sam Bergman has a great illustration of how different it is to hear an orchestra from the audience&#8217;s point of view than from a seat in the orchestra.\u00c2\u00a0 Sam&#8217;s a violist with the Minnesota Orchestra, which is on a European tour right now.\u00c2\u00a0 Their first stop was the Barbican Centre in London, where the [&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_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":[1029,148,225,115,2,22],"tags":[407,406,3658],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acoustics-music","category-appreciations","category-bloggers","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","category-viola","tag-minnesota-orchestra","tag-sam-bergman","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-w1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":698,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/24\/musician-run-series-in-minnesota\/","url_meta":{"origin":1985,"position":0},"title":"musician-hosted series in minnesota","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Violist (aren't we an enterprising bunch?!) 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