{"id":2419,"date":"2009-04-23T07:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:39:42","slug":"bartok-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/23\/bartok-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"bart\u00c3\u00b3k hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arnica<\/a>
\nPhoto: Martha Warrington\/DigitalPDX<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, we did it! We not only got through Bart\u00c3\u00b3k without having to stop and regroup, some of it was actually musical and fun as well!\u00c2\u00a0 A colleague of ours has said that there is no agony more exquisite than the first performance of a difficult piece, and this was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the goal of this warmup performance was to take the training wheels off and see how we’d do.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m now very much looking forward to our performance Sunday afternoon in Salem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Martha Warrington\/DigitalPDX Well, we did it! We not only got through Bart\u00c3\u00b3k without having to stop and regroup, some of it was actually musical and fun as well!\u00c2\u00a0 A colleague of ours has said that there is no agony more exquisite than the first performance of a difficult piece, and this was no exception.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/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":[148,136,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-chamber-music","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-D1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":609,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/26\/oso-speaks-mandarin\/","url_meta":{"origin":2419,"position":0},"title":"oso speaks mandarin","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Bart\u00c3\u00b3k in 1929 [courtesy of wikipedia] One of the great works of the 20th century, Bart\u00c3\u00b3k's Miraculous Mandarin, gets its first performance in Portland in over 30 years this January 12 - 14, 2008 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. 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