{"id":3294,"date":"2009-10-26T18:56:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2009-10-26T18:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T01:56:51","slug":"a-new-way-to-look-at-the-oregon-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/26\/a-new-way-to-look-at-the-oregon-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"a new way to look at the oregon symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our last classical series concert, the orchestra stayed for an extra 30 minutes to get an important job done: it was orchestra photo night.\u00a0 Every few years, a new portrait of the orchestra and its music director is taken.\u00a0 In virtually every other year, the photo is a standard, staid, and well, boring actually, affair.\u00a0 The camera is up in the balcony, and the orchestra and conductor are on the stage, looking up at the camera.<\/p>\n

This year, our PR director, Carl Herko, had a different idea (and one which has been sweeping around the orchestral world lately) – put the orchestra in the audience, give a view of the people that make up the orchestra by showing them off of the stage.\u00a0 I haven’t seen any proofs from the photo shoot at the Oregon Symphony, but here’s an example of a similar photo done by the Concertgebouw Orchestra [click to enlarge]:<\/p>\n

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After our last classical series concert, the orchestra stayed for an extra 30 minutes to get an important job done: it was orchestra photo night.\u00a0 Every few years, a new portrait of the orchestra and its music director is taken.\u00a0 In virtually every other year, the photo is a standard, staid, and well, boring actually, […]<\/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_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":[2],"tags":[3668,320],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-R8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":279,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/16\/adam-flatt-to-newport-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":3294,"position":0},"title":"adam flatt to newport symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Click for photo: Adam Flatt It's always gratifying to hear of a great musician and person who manages to succeed in this tough business. 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