Intermezzo<\/a> a great series of youtube videos about Herbert von Karajan, the great conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1954 to 1989.\u00a0 Well worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today I rode in to downtown Portland to pick up music for the first couple concerts of the upcoming Oregon Symphony season.\u00a0 Can I first of all say how pleasant it is to visit the OSO library these days?\u00a0 Everyone is pleasant and helpful, and the mood up there is relaxed and professional. 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James McQuillen for the Oregonian: From the opening bars Saturday, it was obvious that the Chamber Symphony is a ferociously difficult piece, requiring virtuoso playing with crazy rhythms\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":539,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/19\/thoughts-on-two-concerts-down-two-to-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":3032,"position":4},"title":"thoughts on two concerts down, two to go","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: Oregonian music critic David Stabler gives his expanded list of Poets\/Scientist conductors here. 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