{"id":3189,"date":"2009-10-01T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2013-02-07T19:56:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:56:37","slug":"random-thoughts-for-thursday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/01\/random-thoughts-for-thursday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"random thoughts for thursday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I just have to say that the First Piano Concerto of Brahms is even better than I remembered it.\u00a0 I think the last time we performed it was with Peter Serkin, and that was an amazing series of performances, but this time, with Jon Kimura Parker, and with the orchestra playing so well, it was simply sublime at rehearsal today.\u00a0 Jon just has the most amazing, lush sound on the piano, and it is the perfect sort of sonority for this piece.\u00a0 He can also play with a very, very full sound, but without crashing or clanging.\u00a0 It just looks and sounds effortless.\u00a0 Incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I spotted this nice little short film about Pink Martini today that is worth taking a look at:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"329\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2lu15HkoHWM\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And third, well, there is no third item, so have a good evening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I just have to say that the First Piano Concerto of Brahms is even better than I remembered it.\u00a0 I think the last time we performed it was with Peter Serkin, and that was an amazing series of performances, but this time, with Jon Kimura Parker, and with the orchestra playing so well, it [&hellip;]<\/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":[137,135,2,13],"tags":[439,3668,23,1373],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-music-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","category-video","tag-brahms","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-pink-martini","tag-thomas-lauderdale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3184,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/30\/brahms-youthful-concerto\/","url_meta":{"origin":3189,"position":0},"title":"brahms&#8217; youthful concerto","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend, the Oregon Symphony is performing the early (op. 15) First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms with the great pianist Jon Kimura Parker.\u00a0 It's long been one of my favorite pieces, a stormy, hyper-emotional, post-adolescent expression of the 25 year old Brahms.\u00a0 I only own one recording of this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"brahms","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/brahms-400x355.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7199,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/31\/my-top-musical-experiences-of-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":3189,"position":1},"title":"my top musical experiences of 2011","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure that I will have forgotten something obvious, and except for item #1, the list is roughly in reverse chronological order. 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