{"id":312,"date":"2007-05-07T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/07\/historic-moment\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:10:11","slug":"historic-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/07\/historic-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"historic moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/vermeersm.jpg?w=580\" title=\"vermeer quartet and friends\" alt=\"vermeer quartet and friends\" border=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I caught this photo and story from the Chamber Music Society of Lincon Center&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/?p=142\">blog<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more-->The esteemed and venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/www.vermeerqt.com\">Vermeer Quartet<\/a> is playing its final season before disbanding forever, and their New York stop this year brought many of the best old and young quartets to their final New York concerts.\u00c2\u00a0 Find out who was there by reading the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/?p=142\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/27\/arts\/music\/27verm.html\">review of the concert<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this photo and story from the Chamber Music Society of Lincon Center&#8217;s blog.\u00c2\u00a0<\/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":[2],"tags":[55,3656],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-orchestra","tag-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6147,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/on-the-brink-in-philadelphia\/","url_meta":{"origin":312,"position":0},"title":"on the brink in philadelphia","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 UPDATED 4\/15\/11 While last-minute talks between management and musicians are underway, the Philadelphia Orchestra edges closer to filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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