{"id":2157,"date":"2009-03-16T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2009-03-16T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:50:12","slug":"vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/16\/vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tomas<\/a>
\nPhoto: Mike Lloyd\/The Oregonian<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ve done the first two performances of Tomas Svoboda’s Vortex for Orchestra<\/em>, and the final performance is tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a piece which seems to be growing in power and depth with each time we perform it.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs to be recorded by our orchestra.<\/p>\n

Tomas is such a unique person.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s so self-effacing, modest, almost Nordic in his introvertedness.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s a ranked chess player.\u00c2\u00a0 But he has depths, such depths.\u00c2\u00a0 Vortex is one of those rare pieces where it feels like one is getting a view directly into the innermost soul of the composer.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope this piece gets performances around the country and the world – it deserves to be heard, and its message absorbed … and heeded.<\/p>\n

The Brahms performances have been so much fun.\u00c2\u00a0 As someone remarked to me last night, Carlos “gets” this symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 It is an absolutely poetic interpretation, and the orchestra has responded with that so hard to define combination of muscularity and flexibility, like the top dancers and gymnasts do.\u00c2\u00a0 Our wind section is so damn good these days, I dare say that it’s the rival of the best in the country at this point.\u00c2\u00a0 Particularly noteworthy the last couple nights were Carin Miller, principal bassoon, John Cox, principal horn, and Yoshi Nakao, principal clarinet.\u00c2\u00a0 Great solos, and tremendous ensemble playing from all of the rest of the wind section.\u00c2\u00a0 The low brass also layed down some velvety, burnished tones in the 2nd movement.\u00c2\u00a0 Good stuff.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t been to either of the other concerts of this run, you owe it to yourself to come down to Schnitzer Hall tonight, the band is sounding fine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Mike Lloyd\/The Oregonian We’ve done the first two performances of Tomas Svoboda’s Vortex for Orchestra, and the final performance is tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a piece which seems to be growing in power and depth with each time we perform it.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs to be recorded by our orchestra. Tomas is such a unique person.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s […]<\/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],"tags":[3668,1341,1455],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-composition","category-contemporary","category-music","category-new-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-tomas-svoboda","tag-vortex-for-orchestra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sa8kC-vortex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2152,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/surviving-the-first-rehearsal\/","url_meta":{"origin":2157,"position":0},"title":"“surviving the first rehearsal”","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I spotted this YouTube clip featuring John Adams talking about the world premiere of his work Slonimsky'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's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2260,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/27\/svoboda-talks-about-vortex\/","url_meta":{"origin":2157,"position":1},"title":"svoboda talks about vortex","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Oregonian: see video after the jump: Notes of protest swirl in angry 'Vortex'","rel":"","context":"In "composition"","block_context":{"text":"composition","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/composition\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2202,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/20\/more-vortex-response\/","url_meta":{"origin":2157,"position":2},"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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