{"id":2994,"date":"2009-08-17T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T02:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:52:59","slug":"21st-century-comes-to-the-oregon-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/17\/21st-century-comes-to-the-oregon-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"21st century comes to the Oregon Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, if you were a patron of the Oregon Symphony, you could surf over to the orchestra’s website<\/a> and find out when any concert was taking place during the upcoming season.\u00a0 Not so the orchestra’s members.\u00a0 We have made do 16th century technology on that front: schedules printed on paper.\u00a0 Many of us who are on the go and use a variety of the newest mobile gadgets have had to meticulously hand enter the entire rehearsal schedule (plus the rehearsal order for each rehearsal, if it matters in your individual situation).\u00a0 Now, the indefatigable staff of the OSO has made available\u00a0 electronic versions of the calendar\/schedule for us in formats that are usable on both Windows and Mac computer platforms (yes, including the insidious iPhone).\u00a0 This is a huge time saver for me, personally, and I’m glad that someone thought that it would be a good and useful thing to do.\u00a0 Now I just hope that updates will also be provided electronically as well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For years, if you were a patron of the Oregon Symphony, you could surf over to the orchestra’s website and find out when any concert was taking place during the upcoming season.\u00a0 Not so the orchestra’s members.\u00a0 We have made do 16th century technology on that front: schedules printed on paper.\u00a0 Many of us who […]<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[1783,2],"tags":[3668],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-the-orchestra-world-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6914,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/19\/the-real-first-day-part-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":2994,"position":0},"title":"the real first day, part two","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The first full day of 'real' rehearsals is done, and it was a pretty good day. 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