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Oregon Symphony Resident conductor Gregory Vajda<\/a> conducts a recording of music by his mentor, the composer\/conductor P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s<\/a>, entitled As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The recording is one of three nominated for the prestigious 2010 MIDEM Classical Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Conductor Leonard Slatkin has a compelling essay<\/a> up on his website detailing his experience of having a heart attack during a performance in Rotterdam last month.<\/p>\n

Composer Jennifer Higdon<\/a> had her new Piano Concerto premiered<\/a> by pianist Yuja Wang<\/a> and the Baltimore Symphony<\/a> under conductor Andrew Litton<\/a>.\u00a0 One of Higdon’s upcoming commissions is a work for the group eighth blackbird<\/a> and orchestra, to be premiered by the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano in June 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oregon Symphony Resident conductor Gregory Vajda conducts a recording of music by his mentor, the composer\/conductor P\u00e9ter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s, entitled As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams.\u00a0 The recording is one of three nominated for the prestigious 2010 MIDEM Classical Award. Conductor Leonard Slatkin has a compelling essay up on his website detailing his experience of […]<\/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":[148,183,1027,168,135,2],"tags":[1569,319,541,2020,1624],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-contemporary","category-piano-music","category-recordings-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-baltimore-symphony","tag-gregory-vajda","tag-jennifer-higdon","tag-leonard-slatkin","tag-yuja-wang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-Vl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":473,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/08\/slatkin-to-detroit\/","url_meta":{"origin":3555,"position":0},"title":"slatkin to detroit","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Leonard Slatkin Conductor Leonard Slatkin, one of the most prominent figures in American music during the last three decades, will be named today as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. 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