{"id":3389,"date":"2009-11-22T23:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2009-11-22T23:23:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:23:49","slug":"the-view-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/22\/the-view-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"the view from here"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised (but a bit late) here are the photos that show how different my positions on stage are during this weekend’s concerts.\u00a0 Here is where I normally am (and where I spend the first half of the concert)<\/p>\n

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You can see our stand on the left side of the frame, the concertmaster’s stand right in the center, and the conductor’s stand (made of fancy wood) on the right side of the frame.<\/p>\n

Now here’s where I sit for the Dutilleux Symphony No. 2:<\/p>\n

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Can’t really see the concertmaster from here, since there are several soloists between me and that stand during the performance.\u00a0 I can see the wind and brass sections, however.\u00a0 It’s not too helpful to me, though.<\/p>\n

Finally, here’s how the viola section is chopped in half by the solo timpani, which is left in place to make a shorter stage change between the Dutilleux and the Berlioz that closes the program:<\/p>\n

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See those lonely four chairs in the very back – that’s the unfortunate back half of the viola section, or as we call them for this piece, the Second Violas.\u00a0 Makes life tricky as there are a lot of intricate and fast runs that need to be together with the rest of the strings, not to mention the rest of the violas.<\/p>\n

So there you have it, a short illustrated guide to the viola section in flux during this concert run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised (but a bit late) here are the photos that show how different my positions on stage are during this weekend’s concerts.\u00a0 Here is where I normally am (and where I spend the first half of the concert) [click photo to enlarge] You can see our stand on the left side of the frame, […]<\/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":[55,3668],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-orchestra","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-SF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":677,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/21\/columbus-conductor-takes-a-stand\/","url_meta":{"origin":3389,"position":0},"title":"columbus’ conductor takes a stand","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo credit: Koichi Miura Photo courtesy of Frank Salomon Associates Junichi Hirokami, the music director of the Columbus Symphony (who I hear is fantastic), has been interviewed by the Columbus Dispatch and made some telling remarks about the situation there. 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