{"id":2887,"date":"2009-07-21T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:50:49","slug":"all-quiet-on-the-orchestral-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/21\/all-quiet-on-the-orchestral-front\/","title":{"rendered":"all quiet on the orchestral front"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the middle of the summer.\u00a0 The dog days, one might say, at least here in Portland, where the mercury is expected to top 90\u00b0F again today.\u00a0 There is little going on, classical musically speaking in Portland right now, except for the final concerts of Chamber Music Northwest<\/a>‘s summer festival this Thursday<\/a> through Sunday<\/a>.\u00a0 The action lies further away from the urban centers at this time of year.\u00a0 My colleague James Bash<\/a> linked to the Sun Valley Summer Symphony<\/a> which starts up its concert run on July 27th.<\/p>\n

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\nYeol Eum Sun<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Sunriver Music Festival<\/a> in central Oregon begins its concerts August 13th, with a solo recital by Van Cliburn Competition<\/a> Silver Medallist Yeol Eum Sun.\u00a0 Oregon Symphony concertmaster Jun Iwasaki will be making his dual concertmaster and solo debut with the Sunriver Festival Orchestra on Saturday, August 14th, and Yeol Eum Sun will perform a concerto with the orchestra on Sunday, August 15th.<\/p>\n

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\nJun Iwasaki – Photo: Absolute Images<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the middle of the summer.\u00a0 The dog days, one might say, at least here in Portland, where the mercury is expected to top 90\u00b0F again today.\u00a0 There is little going on, classical musically speaking in Portland right now, except for the final concerts of Chamber Music Northwest‘s summer festival this Thursday through Sunday.\u00a0 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_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":[115,1027,135,138,2,21],"tags":[53,93,982,3659],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-piano-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-summer-festivals","category-the-orchestra-world","category-violin","tag-piano","tag-soloists","tag-sunriver-music-festival","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1815,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/03\/brahms-chamber-concert\/","url_meta":{"origin":2887,"position":0},"title":"brahms chamber concert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Violinist Jonathan Dubay and cellist Gregory Dubay will give a concert of chamber music for strings and piano by Brahms with pianist Janet Guggenheim. 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