{"id":5317,"date":"2010-09-17T00:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T07:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:09:08","slug":"surviving-gala-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/17\/surviving-gala-night\/","title":{"rendered":"surviving gala night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday night was our opening season gala<\/span> special, featuring violinist Joshua Bell.\u00a0 It was an unusual concert in several ways, not the least of which was the rehearsal period that led up to it.\u00a0 Usually, when we rehearse for a classical series concert, we start with one rehearsal on Tuesday, have a day off on Wednesday, play two rehearsals on Thursday, one on Friday, and the dress on Saturday morning, with the first concert on Saturday night.\u00a0 In this case, we had a rehearsal on Monday, a double on Tuesday, Wednesday was off, and on what would have been the dress rehearsal we just worked on the Lalo Symphonie Espagnole<\/em> with Josh Bell.\u00a0 So we basically hadn’t played the majority of the rep on the program since Tuesday.\u00a0 Pretty unprecedented for us.\u00a0 Sometimes we have a dress rehearsal the day before the concert, which is fine, but to have an entire empty day made for some interesting butterflies in my stomach.\u00a0 When you add in the fact that the Nielsen Maskarade<\/em> overture is very difficult and completely unknown to the orchestra – and it opens the concert cold – and that the Lalo is not a standard rep. accompaniment piece for us, it makes the evening interesting.\u00a0 Fortunately everything went pretty well.\u00a0 Josh played the crap out of the Lalo (which he’ll be playing with the Philadelphia Orchestra soon) and we acquitted ourselves well in the rest of the program.\u00a0 I even played my solo in the Enescu without causing myself embarrassment – score! (Principal violist Jo\u00ebl Belgique is out for two programs on paternity leave, helping out his wife, OSO violinist In\u00e9s Voglar with their new arrival son, Alejandro Matias Belgique.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday night was our opening season gala special, featuring violinist Joshua Bell.\u00a0 It was an unusual concert in several ways, not the least of which was the rehearsal period that led up to it.\u00a0 Usually, when we rehearse for a classical series concert, we start with one rehearsal on Tuesday, have a day off on […]<\/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":[148,135,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1nL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":888,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/28\/this-weeks-schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":5317,"position":0},"title":"this week’s schedule","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a sample of a typcial week in the life of a symphonic musician: Monday: 9:30 - 12:00 - OSO rehearsal for CL 11 @ ASCH 1:30 - 3:00 - Arnica Quartet rehearsal Tuesday: practice, run errands, clean, excercise Wednesday: 11:00 - 11:45 - Arnica Quartet sound check 12:00 -\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":323,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/13\/this-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":5317,"position":1},"title":"this week","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've noticed that some other orchestral bloggers give their schedule, and I think it helps give the layperson an idea of what we do during the week, so I'll do the same for this last classical subscription week of the year (with gigs included): PROGRAM: Schubert Symphony No. 8 \"Unfinished\"\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":8295,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/05\/beethoven-nine-sold-out-dress-rehearsal-tix-available\/","url_meta":{"origin":5317,"position":2},"title":"beethoven nine sold out – dress rehearsal tix available","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's great news for us at the Oregon Symphony - all three concerts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony have sold out! 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