Ugh, it’s that late-night-getting-ready-to-leave-for-a-few-days-at-a-festival madness, and as usual, I’m not at all keen about leaving home.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s always difficult to maintain any sort of practicing routine when you’re away from home.\u00c2\u00a0 You might not have any privacy, or won’t want to disturb your hosts, or you just might be too tired.\u00c2\u00a0 Or all of the above.<\/p>\n
We’re off to the first weekend of the Astoria Festival<\/a>, which should be plenty interesting if you want to head out to one of the most picturesque of Oregon coastal towns.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out the full schedule here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This first weekend (Friday-Sunday) is a mixed bag of goodies.\u00c2\u00a0 Friday night is Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 “Italian” followed cleverly by highlights from Verdi’s La Traviata<\/em>, with baritone Richard Zeller<\/a>, soprano Emily Pulley<\/a> (MET opera), and tenor Mark Panuccio<\/a> (Chicago Lyric Opera) singing the major roles.\u00c2\u00a0 At rehearsals they have sounded amazing!\u00c2\u00a0 Saturday night features Tchaikovsky Competition gold medal winner Sergey Antonov<\/a> playing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations<\/em> followed by Beethoven’s mighty Ninth Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 Sunday afternoon features the Astoria Festival Chamber Players, performing a variety of works, including the Arensky Quartet No. 2 for violin, viola and two cellos, played by In\u00c3\u00a8s Voglar, violin; Jo\u00c3\u00abl Belgique, viola; and Dorothy Lewis and Heather Blackburn, cellos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ugh, it’s that late-night-getting-ready-to-leave-for-a-few-days-at-a-festival madness, and as usual, I’m not at all keen about leaving home.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s always difficult to maintain any sort of practicing routine when you’re away from home.\u00c2\u00a0 You might not have any privacy, or won’t want to disturb your hosts, or you just might be too tired.\u00c2\u00a0 Or all of the […]<\/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":[115,135,138,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-summer-festivals","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-I3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2758,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/23\/captain-oh-my-captain\/","url_meta":{"origin":2731,"position":0},"title":"captain, oh my captain!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 23, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been thinking, over the past several days, about the purpose of the arts.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, they stimulate the economy to a greater extent than almost any other entertainment form in proportion to dollars spent.\u00c2\u00a0 But, there is much, much more to it than that. 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