{"id":39,"date":"2006-05-11T21:54:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T05:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=39"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T01:43:46","slug":"random-thoughts-about-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/11\/random-thoughts-about-music\/","title":{"rendered":"random thoughts about music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some thoughts that have passed through my head during the last couple of days of rehearsals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mozart really <em>is<\/em> a great composer (Norman Lebrecht notwithstanding)<\/li>\n<li>Composer John Adams just might have the best copyist in the business<\/li>\n<li>Choruses will, without fail, laugh at all the conductor&#8217;s jokes<\/li>\n<li>Playing softly is much more difficult than playing loudly<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassical.com\/artists\/levin\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Levin<\/a> completion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/103-0329101-5220602?n=5174\" target=\"_blank\">Mozart <em>Requiem<\/em><\/a> is way cool<\/li>\n<li>The <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Lacrimosa<\/span> movement from the Mozart <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Requiem <\/span>is the most beautiful piece of music ever written<\/li>\n<li>I wish I could play the Ravel <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Violin Sonata<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Cellist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/kates.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Kates<\/a> and violinist Berl Senofsky may be two of the most underrated great musicians of all time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some thoughts that have passed through my head during the last couple of days of rehearsals: Mozart really is a great composer (Norman Lebrecht notwithstanding) Composer John Adams just might have the best copyist in the business Choruses will, without fail, laugh at all the conductor&#8217;s jokes Playing softly is much more difficult [&hellip;]<\/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":[67,86,40,3659],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-conductor","tag-misc","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13658,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/03\/third-angle-mozart-revisited\/","url_meta":{"origin":39,"position":0},"title":"third angle: mozart revisited","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you remember the People Mover from Future World at Disneyland? 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