{"id":4021,"date":"2010-02-12T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:13:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:13:17","slug":"storm-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/12\/storm-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"storm warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Friday<\/span> Saturday we&#8217;re doing a one-night-only show with local sensation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/stormlarge.com\">Storm Large<\/a>.\u00a0 I had heard <em>of<\/em> Storm, but not actually <em>heard<\/em> her, and I was pleasantly surprised by her vocal prowess in sets largely made up of standards from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Great_American_Songbook\">Great American Songbook<\/a>.\u00a0 Songs by Elvis Costello, Storm Large, and John Lennon also are on the menu.\u00a0 The arrangements are all quite good, and some are downright spectacular, including some favorites by our own Pops conductor laureate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Norman_Leyden\">Norman Leyden<\/a>, and by Pink Martini arranger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bio.html\">Stephen Taylor<\/a>.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">The best available tickets are in the upper balcony ($35) &#8211; so it&#8217;s likely to be sold out before long, so get yours now!<\/span> <strong>The concert is now sold out!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday Saturday we&#8217;re doing a one-night-only show with local sensation Storm Large.\u00a0 I had heard of Storm, but not actually heard her, and I was pleasantly surprised by her vocal prowess in sets largely made up of standards from the Great American Songbook.\u00a0 Songs by Elvis Costello, Storm Large, and John Lennon also are [&hellip;]<\/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":[137,135,2,1583],"tags":[108,3668],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-music-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","category-vocal-music","tag-norman-leyden","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-12R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13505,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/23\/rip-norman-leyden-1917-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":4021,"position":0},"title":"RIP: Norman Leyden (1917-2014)","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It was with great sadness that I learned today of the death of the Oregon Symphony's Laureate Assistant Conductor Norman Leyden at the age of 96. 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