{"id":2824,"date":"2009-07-07T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:48:32","slug":"six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/07\/six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3698872676_c247a8d7d8_o.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2825\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;\" title=\"3698872676_c247a8d7d8_o\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3698872676_c247a8d7d8_o-400x491.jpg?resize=400%2C491\" alt=\"3698872676_c247a8d7d8_o\" width=\"400\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Myself, Heather Blackburn, and Marty Jennings in Southern Oregon in March, 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the sixth anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/4184\">death<\/a> of violinist Marty Jennings.\u00c2\u00a0 He was 32 years old.\u00c2\u00a0 Marty and I shared the love of three major obsessions in our lives: music, coffee, and cycling.\u00c2\u00a0 Often I&#8217;m out on a ride and I wish that I could tell Marty about what I have seen or done.\u00c2\u00a0 Or about a spectacular shot of espresso I&#8217;ve had.\u00c2\u00a0 Or why Beethoven really is a great composer, even though Marty didn&#8217;t like his music all that much.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad that his legacy lives on in his children, his lovely daughter Taylor, and Simon Danger Jennings (yes, Danger is his middle name!).\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s been five years, in some ways it seems like just yesterday, in other like it&#8217;s been a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myself, Heather Blackburn, and Marty Jennings in Southern Oregon in March, 2001. Today marks the sixth anniversary of the death of violinist Marty Jennings.\u00c2\u00a0 He was 32 years old.\u00c2\u00a0 Marty and I shared the love of three major obsessions in our lives: music, coffee, and cycling.\u00c2\u00a0 Often I&#8217;m out on a ride and I wish [&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_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":[2,21],"tags":[3668],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","category-violin","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Jy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7153,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/14\/joshua-bell-changes-program-for-portland\/","url_meta":{"origin":2824,"position":0},"title":"joshua bell changes program for portland","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope that the Classical Beaver brings a change of underwear for the Oregon Symphony's January 14, 15 and 16th concerts, because the 'rock star' violinist Joshua Bell will now be playing the great Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms in place of the previously programmed First Concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;soloists &amp; 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