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Click here<\/a> for a beautifully written account of who Kjersten and Angela were and why what they were doing was important.\u00c2\u00a0 Written by OSO Principal percussionist and OBT Music Director Niel DePonte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click here for a beautifully written account of who Kjersten and Angela were and why what they were doing was important.\u00c2\u00a0 Written by OSO Principal percussionist and OBT Music Director Niel DePonte.<\/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":[2],"tags":[67,3655,3666],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-news","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12660,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/20\/brahms-tidbits\/","url_meta":{"origin":207,"position":0},"title":"brahms tidbits","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Above: The alphorn melody heard by Brahms on a walk, written on a birthday greeting to Clara Schumann. 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