{"id":2936,"date":"2009-08-03T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:51:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:51:56","slug":"conducting-isnt-as-easy-as-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/03\/conducting-isnt-as-easy-as-it-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"conducting isn’t as easy as it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nViolinist Ron Blessinger\/Photo: Absolute Images<\/span><\/p>\n

Violinist Ron Blessinger, who is a member of the Oregon Symphony as well as Artistic Director of the Third Angle New Music Ensemble<\/a>, reports in a blog entry today<\/a> about his experience at the Rose City Conducting Workshop<\/a> last week.\u00a0 It’s an interesting and entertaining read, and it shows that, despite looking simple to those of us on the other end of the stick, conducting is actually pretty difficult!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Violinist Ron Blessinger\/Photo: Absolute Images Violinist Ron Blessinger, who is a member of the Oregon Symphony as well as Artistic Director of the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, reports in a blog entry today about his experience at the Rose City Conducting Workshop last week.\u00a0 It’s an interesting and entertaining read, and it shows that, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[299,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":812,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/26\/oso-violinist-thinks-out-loud\/","url_meta":{"origin":2936,"position":0},"title":"oso violinist thinks out loud","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00c2\u00a0 Ron Blessinger, violinist with the Oregon Symphony, blogger, and artistic director of the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, well be a guest on the new Oregon Public Broadcasting radio show Think Out Loud, on Wednesday, February 27th from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. You can listen on your radio at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "bloggers"","block_context":{"text":"bloggers","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/bloggers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ron-hm.png","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ron-hm.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13760,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/16\/wilder-shores-2014-2015-season-blog-third-angle-ensemble\/","url_meta":{"origin":2936,"position":1},"title":"Wilder Shores |2014-2015 Season | Blog | Third Angle Ensemble","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend Third Angle New Music heads east to make our NYC debut at the prestigious Bang on a Can Marathon, and we\u2019re thrilled to be presenting the world premiere of LJ White\u2019s\u00a0Wilder Shores. \u2013 Ron Blessinger, 3A Artistic Director and violinist Source: Wilder Shores |2014-2015 Season | Blog |\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "concert preview"","block_context":{"text":"concert preview","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/concert-preview\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21377,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/16\/new-podcast-episode-with-greg-ewer-and-ron-blessinger-of-45th-parallel-universe\/","url_meta":{"origin":2936,"position":2},"title":"new podcast episode with Greg Ewer and Ron Blessinger of 45th Parallel Universe","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The newest episode of the Classical Currents Podcast is now available. 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