{"id":2446,"date":"2009-04-29T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:40:34","slug":"mid-week-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/29\/mid-week-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"mid-week news roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/newspaper.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2447\" title=\"newspaper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/newspaper-400x312.jpg?resize=400%2C312\" alt=\"newspaper\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/la-me-steve-witser29-2009apr29,0,7186114.story\">very sad news<\/a> from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose Principal trombonist, Steven Witser, died of a heart attack at the age of 48 on Monday night.<\/li>\n<li>The Ying Quartet is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/1032\">losing its first violinist<\/a>, resulting in a quartet that will not be all siblings.<\/li>\n<li>The Baltimore Symphony musicians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/daily35.html\">have given $1 million<\/a> in voluntary wage\/benefit concessions and are involved in an extensive fundraising drive for the orchestra.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/chatter.nmbx?id=5956\">Interesting article<\/a> in NewMusicBox about the efficacy of pre-concert lectures.<\/li>\n<li>Krystian Zimerman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/la-ed-zimerman28-2009apr28,0,2833077.story\">creates a furor<\/a> with his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/krystian-zimerman-missile-defence-poland\">politically-based anti-US<\/a> concert remarks and apparent self-imposed ban on future US performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some very sad news from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose Principal trombonist, Steven Witser, died of a heart attack at the age of 48 on Monday night. The Ying Quartet is losing its first violinist, resulting in a quartet that will not be all siblings. The Baltimore Symphony musicians have given $1 million in voluntary [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[1569,313,3669,3655],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baltimore-symphony","tag-los-angeles-philharmonic","tag-music","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13976,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/17\/2016-2017-season-announcements\/","url_meta":{"origin":2446,"position":0},"title":"2016-2017 season announcements","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Page Moved: subsequent updates will be made at this location. 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