{"id":3976,"date":"2010-02-02T23:26:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:13:08","slug":"amazing-beethoven-cycle-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/02\/amazing-beethoven-cycle-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"amazing beethoven cycle in nyc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XnSWoTbqHWg\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Wow, I wish I could go out to New York to see this!\u00a0 What a lineup of great, young quartets to have play the greatest cycle of chamber music ever written: the complete string quartets of Beethoven.\u00a0 Very jealous! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/#\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And as a bonus, the genius of double bassist Daxun Zhang [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/www.daxunzhang.com\">link<\/a>] &#8211; the best bassist that you&#8217;ve never heard of before.\u00a0 Such amazing musicianship and intonation.\u00a0 Thank god for YouTube!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yBKMVSOoGUw\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I wish I could go out to New York to see this!\u00a0 What a lineup of great, young quartets to have play the greatest cycle of chamber music ever written: the complete string quartets of Beethoven.\u00a0 Very jealous! [link] And as a bonus, the genius of double bassist Daxun Zhang [link] &#8211; the best [&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":[136,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-128","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7361,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/29\/beethoven-a-metaphysical-presence\/","url_meta":{"origin":3976,"position":0},"title":"beethoven, a metaphysical presence","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been playing in string quartets for almost all of my adult life. I did the desultory dabbling that one often does as a high school student, and I wish that I'd been more serious about chamber music back then. 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