{"id":2820,"date":"2009-07-07T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:48:30","slug":"simply-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/simply-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"simply purple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, composer Joan Tower was commissioned by violist Paul Neubauer (a perennial Chamber Music NW favorite) to write a work for solo viola.\u00c2\u00a0 The result was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/default.aspx?TabId=2420&amp;State_2874=2&amp;workId_2874=23911\"><em>Wild Purple<\/em><\/a>, a fantastic tour de force that shows off the virtuosity of today&#8217;s violist.\u00c2\u00a0 The title came from Tower&#8217;s association of the sound of the viola with a deep, rich, purple color.\u00c2\u00a0 Ten years later, Neubauer commissioned a follow-up piece, which became <em>Simply Purple<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Also in 2008 there was a viola concerto entitled <em>Purple Rhapsody<\/em>, also composed for Neubauer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s video of a performance of <em>Simply Purple<\/em> by Neubauer:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lY9dvEwqbkA\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1998, composer Joan Tower was commissioned by violist Paul Neubauer (a perennial Chamber Music NW favorite) to write a work for solo viola.\u00c2\u00a0 The result was Wild Purple, a fantastic tour de force that shows off the virtuosity of today&#8217;s violist.\u00c2\u00a0 The title came from Tower&#8217;s association of the sound of the viola with [&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_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":[115,269,135,13,22],"tags":[1719,3660,274],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-video","category-viola","tag-paul-neubauer","tag-viola","tag-violist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Ju","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14980,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/05\/viola-monday-11-5-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":2820,"position":0},"title":"viola monday 11\/5\/18","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I've decided to start a regular column on Mondays that deals just with the viola. 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