{"id":2372,"date":"2009-04-20T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:39:25","slug":"dancing-about-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/20\/dancing-about-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"dancing about architecture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who were at our Saturday evening concert of this past week’s subscription series may recall a humerous quote that James DePreist cited about music: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t give a source, and many of you may have thought that this was his own invention.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it wasn’t, but exactly who first came up with this gem is not agreed upon.\u00c2\u00a0 Take a look at this page<\/a> (truly, you can find anything on the web these days).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who were at our Saturday evening concert of this past week’s subscription series may recall a humerous quote that James DePreist cited about music: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”.\u00c2\u00a0 He didn’t give a source, and many of you may have thought that this was his own invention.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, […]<\/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_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":[143],"tags":[156,3668],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-james-depreist","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Cg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12446,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/08\/james-depreist-1936-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2372,"position":0},"title":"James DePreist: 1936-2013","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A stunning collection of photographs posted by the Oregonian newspaper on Feb. 8, 2013.","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14427,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/30\/james-depreist-conducting-in-1966\/","url_meta":{"origin":2372,"position":1},"title":"James DePreist conducting in 1966","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I just became aware of this video from the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts. 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