{"id":2152,"date":"2009-03-15T13:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2009-03-15T13:57:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:57:46","slug":"surviving-the-first-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/surviving-the-first-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;surviving the first rehearsal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this YouTube clip featuring John Adams talking about the world premiere of his work <em>Slonimsky&#8217;s Earbox<\/em> with the Hall\u00c3\u00a9 Orchestra (the Oregon Symphony played the US premiere), and it struck me that said that the hardest part about being a composer was surviving the first rehearsal of one&#8217;s work.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking about this as we read through Tomas Svoboda&#8217;s new piece <em>Vortex for Orchestra<\/em> this week.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to ask him how <em>he<\/em> felt.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZRc2zMHshQ8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZRc2zMHshQ8\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this YouTube clip featuring John Adams talking about the world premiere of his work Slonimsky&#8217;s Earbox with the Hall\u00c3\u00a9 Orchestra (the Oregon Symphony played the US premiere), and it struck me that said that the hardest part about being a composer was surviving the first rehearsal of one&#8217;s work.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[148,167,183,115,269,2,13],"tags":[416,3668,1341,1455],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-composition","category-contemporary","category-music","category-new-music","category-the-orchestra-world","category-video","tag-john-adams","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-tomas-svoboda","tag-vortex-for-orchestra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-yI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2202,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/20\/more-vortex-response\/","url_meta":{"origin":2152,"position":0},"title":"more vortex response","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 20, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Brett Campbell writes enthusiastically about the recent Oregon Symphony premiere performances of Tomas Svoboda's Vortex for Orchestra, as well as the rest of the concert.\u00c2\u00a0 It's a nice, tight review, well-written and very nice to see in the pages (web) of the Willamette Week. 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