{"id":4668,"date":"2010-05-18T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T23:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2010-05-18T16:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T23:58:12","slug":"final-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/18\/final-push\/","title":{"rendered":"final push"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting at the computer with my afternoon latte beside me, and am reflecting upon the fact that this is the last week of the Oregon Symphony’s 2009-2010 season.\u00a0 It truly has gone by in what seems like the blink of an eye.\u00a0 Last night we concluded our three concert traversal of all six Beethoven piano concertos and his three Leonore<\/em> overtures.\u00a0 It might not seem like it, but the festival will most likely turn out to be a huge growth experience for the orchestra.\u00a0 We were forced to give polished, cohesive performances with much less rehearsal than we’d normally get for a series.\u00a0 This will provide the impetus for artistic growth through the seasons to come.\u00a0 It was also a pleasure to spend two series working with the excellent cellist Quirine Viersen, to see our great concertmaster Jun Iwasaki tearing up the Beethoven Triple<\/em> Concerto, and to traverse all of the Beethoven concertos with the indefatigable pianist Arnaldo Cohen.\u00a0 He really was the hero of the weekend!<\/p>\n

This coming weekend brings the great ‘Titan’ Symphony No. 1 of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten’s great Violin Concerto with violinist Elina V\u00e4h\u00e4l\u00e4.\u00a0 Already, after just two rehearsals, Carlos and the orchestra are shaping what looks to be a great and memorable interpretation of this first of ten symphonies by the great Viennese master.\u00a0 It will be an awesome and inspiring way to send both us and our audience out into the northwest summer and close the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting at the computer with my afternoon latte beside me, and am reflecting upon the fact that this is the last week of the Oregon Symphony’s 2009-2010 season.\u00a0 It truly has gone by in what seems like the blink of an eye.\u00a0 Last night we concluded our three concert traversal of all six Beethoven […]<\/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":[135,2],"tags":[3668,2242],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-quirine-viersen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4637,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/10\/more-quirine-viersen\/","url_meta":{"origin":4668,"position":0},"title":"more quirine viersen","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you who have been lucky enough to hear the wonderful Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen play the Dvor\u00e1k concerto this weekend (and one more performance tonight), you'll also get to hear her play the Beethoven Triple Concerto with OSO concertmaster Jun Iwasaki and pianist Arnaldo Cohen.\u00a0 Here's a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "cello"","block_context":{"text":"cello","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/instruments\/cello\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4451,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/16\/whats-next-at-the-oregon-symphony\/","url_meta":{"origin":4668,"position":1},"title":"what’s next at the oregon symphony","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2009-2010 season has about six weeks left before it ends, and we're just about to enter the home stretch.\u00a0 May is a super-busy month, but April still has some compelling concerts to see and hear. 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