{"id":4678,"date":"2010-05-19T17:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4678"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:22:32","slug":"insert-name-here-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/19\/insert-name-here-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"insert-name-here festival?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/oregon_symphonys_beethoven_fes.html\">David Stabler<\/a> has the ticket sales info for last week&#8217;s Beethoven Festival, which was quite successful, with just over 71 percent capacity audiences.\u00a0 He suggests a few possibilities for future festivals, such as Gershwin, Bernstein, or Latin.\u00a0 That got me to thinking, too.<!--more--><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Viennese Festival<\/strong> &#8211; works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Berg, Webern, Schoenberg &#8211; with lectures on the First and Second Viennese Schools, the Vienna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Vienna_Secession\">Seccessionist movement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Der_Blaue_Reiter\"><em>Blaue Reiter<\/em><\/a> school, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beethoven Festival II<\/strong> &#8211; all the symphonies, or a selection of symphonies with the violin concerto, excerpts from <em>Fidelio<\/em>, etc., perhaps with OSO players doing chamber works across the street in the PCPA facility.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All-American Festival<\/strong> &#8211; Ives, Chadwick, Copland, Bernstein, Ruggles, Rorem, Adams, Corigliano &#8211; the possibilities are endless, as is the variety.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keyboard Legends Festival<\/strong> &#8211; great pianists playing the great piano concertos: Bronfman, Ax, Hough, Wang, Lang or whoever we can afford for a destination weekend of concerts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mostly Mozart<\/strong> &#8211; we play Mozart better than almost any other American orchestra, why not show off with symphonies, opera arias, overtures, and religious music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What ideas do you have for the next Oregon Symphony Festival event?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Stabler has the ticket sales info for last week&#8217;s Beethoven Festival, which was quite successful, with just over 71 percent capacity audiences.\u00a0 He suggests a few possibilities for future festivals, such as Gershwin, Bernstein, or Latin.\u00a0 That got me to thinking, too.<\/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":[2],"tags":[3668],"class_list":["post-4678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4668,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/18\/final-push\/","url_meta":{"origin":4678,"position":0},"title":"final push","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;soloists &amp; recitals&quot;","block_context":{"text":"soloists &amp; recitals","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/soloists-recitals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":530,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/12\/classical-6-imix\/","url_meta":{"origin":4678,"position":1},"title":"Classical 6 iMix","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the iMix for this coming week's classical series concerts with conductor Hannu Lintu and cellist Ralph Kirshbaum. 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