{"id":4098,"date":"2010-02-22T23:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T07:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:13:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:13:45","slug":"webern-in-mayberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/22\/webern-in-mayberry\/","title":{"rendered":"webern in mayberry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were at Saturday night&#8217;s Oregon Symphony concert, you&#8217;ll recall resident conductor Gregory Vajda talking about a setting of a scene from the Andy Griffith Show to music of Anton Webern (his Op. 6 no. 3).\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the clip he was referring to:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/COxcYXyxnKk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were at Saturday night&#8217;s Oregon Symphony concert, you&#8217;ll recall resident conductor Gregory Vajda talking about a setting of a scene from the Andy Griffith Show to music of Anton Webern (his Op. 6 no. 3).\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the clip he was referring to:<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[148,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-the-orchestra-world","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-146","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4265,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/sublime-schubert\/","url_meta":{"origin":4098,"position":0},"title":"sublime schubert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As a violist, I'm a big fan of Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione (an now-defunct six-stringed instrument resembling a cello).\u00a0 It has all the great melodic lines that you expect of Schubert, and it's one of the great pieces written for any instrument.\u00a0 Cellists like to claim it as their own,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;recordings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/recordings-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":514,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/03\/more-reactions-to-crosscut-oso-article\/","url_meta":{"origin":4098,"position":1},"title":"more reactions to crosscut OSO article","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"You can read them here. 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