{"id":4216,"date":"2010-03-16T00:42:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T07:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:15:40","slug":"the-classical-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/16\/the-classical-beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"the classical beaver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, before you jump to the conclusion that this post is about some classical music blog that will be zapped by your safe-surf software, be assured, The Classical Beaver<\/a> is quite simply a highly-entertaining and informative blog written by a very enthusiastic Oregon Symphony audience member.\u00a0 It’s well worth adding to your blogging routine – here’s a sample from the Beaver’s latest posting:<\/p>\n

last weekend\u2019s schubert\/rossini concert line-up was notable for something it was missing \u2013 a modern piece of music.\u00a0 in fact, after some very simplistic investigative journalism, i discovered it was the only program this classical subscription season not to contain a 20th or 21st century work.\u00a0 to be very clear, allow me to specifically state that out of the 16 regularly scheduled classical concerts this season, remarkably 15 of them contained at least one 20th or 21st century work.\u00a0 15 out of 16!\u00a0 or, since baseball season is thankfully nipping at our heels, that\u2019s a percentage of .937!\u00a0 one might wonder why i am becoming belligerent about this.\u00a0 well, let me tell you<\/em>, when i began regularly attending oregon symphony concerts a few years ago, i just assumed that i\u2019d be constantly listening to the music of mozart, bach, and Beethoven (which ain\u2019t so bad, btw).\u00a0 i was stoked to discover that the os actually plays a shit-ton of modern music\u2026 you know, chock-full of dissonant, politically charged, jazz-infected, pared-down, minimalistic, atonal musings\u2026 stuff that was written when jackson pollack was dripping, when martin luther king jr. was preaching, when john coltrane was blowing, and when raymond carver was writing.\u00a0 if you care about these people and their creations, get your ass to an oregon symphony concert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[link<\/a>] – the classical beaver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, before you jump to the conclusion that this post is about some classical music blog that will be zapped by your safe-surf software, be assured, The Classical Beaver is quite simply a highly-entertaining and informative blog written by a very enthusiastic Oregon Symphony audience member.\u00a0 It’s well worth adding to your blogging routine – […]<\/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":[148,225,115,2],"tags":[3668,2180],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-bloggers","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-the-classical-beaver"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-160","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7065,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/12\/classical-beaver-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":0},"title":"classical beaver moon?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Discovered via the Farmers' Almanac that the November full moon is often referred to as the Beaver Moon. I mention this in honor of my blogger brother the Classical Beaver (Brian Horay), and thank the beloved rodent for all of his fervent dam-building love of the Oregon Symphony.","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/full-beaver-moon-blue-moon-november-21-2010.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7825,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/05\/best-symphony-preview-blurb-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":1},"title":"best symphony preview blurb – ever","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In this week's Portland Mercury, from our own Classical Beaver, aka Angry Symphony Guy: OREGON SYMPHONY, COLIN CURRIE (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway) The Oregon Symphony's first classical concert of the 2012\/13 season rightfully deserves an exhaustive six-page spread, but the fucking idgits who run this craptastic \"newspaper\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12486,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/21\/angry-symphony-guy-strikes-again-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":2},"title":"angry symphony guy strikes again!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"From Angry Symphony Guy (aka Classical Beaver, Brian Horay, Huffington Post guest blogger) posting at the Portland Mercury arts listing pages: STEPHEN HOUGH, OREGON SYMPHONY (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway) Chief cultural blogger for the Telegraph of London.\u00a0Prodigious recorder of more than 50 albums.\u00a0MacArthur genius.\u00a0Theologian. 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Queer activist.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "soloists & recitals"","block_context":{"text":"soloists & recitals","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/soloists-recitals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7153,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/14\/joshua-bell-changes-program-for-portland\/","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":3},"title":"joshua bell changes program for portland","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope that the Classical Beaver brings a change of underwear for the Oregon Symphony's January 14, 15 and 16th concerts, because the 'rock star' violinist Joshua Bell will now be playing the great Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms in place of the previously programmed First Concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "soloists & recitals"","block_context":{"text":"soloists & recitals","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/soloists-recitals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/brahms5.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":869,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/10-tix-to-classical-elegance-oso\/","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":4},"title":"$10 tix to classical elegance @ OSO","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"a Special Ticket offer from Oregon Symphony: Below please find a special $10 ticket offer for Classical Elegance with the Oregon Symphony. Please feel free to circulate this offer to family, friends and other contacts who may be interested. There are some great seats on the orchestra level that are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4459,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/17\/take-that-saltzman\/","url_meta":{"origin":4216,"position":5},"title":"take that, saltzman!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Classical Beaver has a great open letter to Commissioner Dan Saltzman, which I reprint here in its entirety: \u201cAfter being alerted to the Mercury\u2019s blog posting this week [\u201cShould City Pay To Send the Symphony to NYC?\u201d], I can only assume that many moons ago, young Daniel Saltzman must\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}