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David Stabler reports this morning<\/a> that the Oregon Bach Festival will open its 2008 season<\/a> by performing a concert (Bach’s B-minor Mass<\/em>) at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland.\u00c2\u00a0 What next?\u00c2\u00a0 Will the Eugene Symphony start a series in the Oregon Symphony’s home hall?\u00c2\u00a0 The Seattle Symphony?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s frustrating, because while we continually draw back the number of concerts that we offer both in Portland and around the state of Oregon (we are called the Oregon<\/em> Symphony, after all) other arts organizations are presumably seeing needs that they can meet in the Portland market.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, I’m worried about what this portends for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Stabler reports this morning that the Oregon Bach Festival will open its 2008 season by performing a concert (Bach’s B-minor Mass) at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland.\u00c2\u00a0 What next?\u00c2\u00a0 Will the Eugene Symphony start a series in the Oregon Symphony’s home hall?\u00c2\u00a0 The Seattle Symphony?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s frustrating, because while we continually draw […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[67,3666,3662,62],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":898,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/01\/new-concert-hall-slated-for-portland\/","url_meta":{"origin":495,"position":0},"title":"new concert hall slated for portland","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a stunning turn of events, an 'angel' donor who wishes to remain anonymous has donated a staggering $100 million dollars to fund a purpose-built hall for symphonic music in Portland. 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