{"id":332,"date":"2007-05-23T07:54:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/23\/old-friend-in-town\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:16:30","slug":"old-friend-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/23\/old-friend-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"old friend in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/510493210_cbb119d424_b.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"crownpoint.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/510493210_cbb119d424_b.thumbnail.jpg?resize=200%2C133\" alt=\"crownpoint.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/>\n[click to enlarge]<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend we had a visit from my old college roommate Tom Joyce, who is the bass trombonist of the Charleston (SC) Symphony.  <!--more-->It was great to schlep him around to the audition on Tuesday, even though he did not end up getting the job.  It was especially nice since it had been a year since we&#8217;d last seen Tom, at the home of a mutual friend last summer, and before that it had been several years between visits.<\/p>\n<p>We had a couple of great dinners with him: on Monday evening we went to Typhoon! on Broadway  before our OSO concert, and last night, after a trip up the Columbia Gorge to show him Multnomah Falls and Crown Point, we went to another of our favorites, Vindalho, since Tom&#8217;s two favorite cuisines are Thai and Indian.  I agree with him that given either one, we could eat them happily every day for the rest of our lives!<\/p>\n<p>A nice coincidence of being out in the gorge was that we ran into our guest concertmaster from this past week, Elisa Barston, along with her daughter, husband and in-laws at Multnomah Falls.  It was nice to get to say goodbye to her after such a nice working week.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[click to enlarge] Over the weekend we had a visit from my old college roommate Tom Joyce, who is the bass trombonist of the Charleston (SC) Symphony.<\/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_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":[],"tags":[40,62,3660],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc","tag-symphony","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-5m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13552,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/06\/on-the-precipice\/","url_meta":{"origin":332,"position":0},"title":"on the precipice","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 6, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of the year when the Oregon Symphony season has begun, but it is happening only in fits and starts. 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