{"id":5341,"date":"2010-09-22T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:30:51","slug":"in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/22\/in-between\/","title":{"rendered":"in-between"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those strange weeks that we often have near the start of the season, where we&#8217;ve had a couple of special concerts under our belt, then a few days off, another special, and then the season gets underway in earnest.\u00a0 This week happens to be one where we had a concert on last Saturday night (the Countdown to Carnegie fundraiser) and then no rehearsals until Thursday morning.\u00a0 On Thursday we start rehearsals for a concert by the Portland Symphonic Choir, conducted by their conductor, the excellent Steven Zopfi.\u00a0 The major piece on the program is Mozart&#8217;s Mass in c minor, with the first half of the program dedicated to three short portions of Wagner&#8217;s <em>Lohengrin<\/em>.\u00a0 Tickets are available <a href=\"http:\/\/tickets.orsymphony.org\/single\/eventDetail.aspx?p=1412&amp;sStatus=new\">here<\/a>, and lots of tickets are available, from what I hear.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of the week, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of training rides in preparation for the Echelon Gran Fondo Hood River, which takes place on Sunday. The fundraising deadline is October 1st, even though the ride takes place on September 26th &#8211; so please consider a modest donation if you are able &#8211; the ride benefits both the Livestrong Foundation and the local OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, both incredibly worthy causes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/donorpledge.asp?ievent=337766&amp;supId=298956821\">a link to my fundraising page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A couple rides up Council Crest have been helping with preparing for the hills on the route, and yesterday I rode over Chehalem Mountain (really around it, almost completely) via Rte 219, and road I&#8217;ve driven quite a few times but never thought that I&#8217;d actually ride over.\u00a0 And I even did it without stopping.\u00a0 I must admit that there was one place, on SW Leander Road, where the grade was 18% and I had to walk for about 50 yards, but other than that I rode all the climbs without stopping.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty proud of myself, I must admit! Here&#8217;s a map of that ride, for those of you who are interested:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/49984295\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those strange weeks that we often have near the start of the season, where we&#8217;ve had a couple of special concerts under our belt, then a few days off, another special, and then the season gets underway in earnest.\u00a0 This week happens to be one where we had a concert on [&hellip;]<\/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":[50,103,2],"tags":[2378,3668,2377],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-fundraising","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-echelon-gran-fondo-hood-river","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-portland-symphonic-choir"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1o9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5655,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/20\/holiday-time-of-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":0},"title":"holiday time of year","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, this weekend (well, the past couple weeks, in fact) has been the typical holiday rush of rehearsals and concerts for us at the Oregon Symphony.\u00a0 This past week we were rehearsing Handel's Messiah for performances on Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0 This was only the second Oregon Symphony performance of a\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/155217-jean-marie-zeitouni.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12468,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/12\/my-beethovens-wild-ride\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":1},"title":"mr beethoven&#8217;s wild ride","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We just finished our three concert run of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony last night at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. It was, as many have observed, a bittersweet occasion. Sweet because of the great music making, bitter because of the recent passing of our beloved maestro James (Jimmy) DePreist. As violinist Ron\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","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\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/CFQQsu6VBYA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5460,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/21\/old-school-old-church\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":2},"title":"old school + old church","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I'm in rehearsals for a concert that I think you'll enjoy quite a bit.\u00a0 It's presented by the new Portland chamber music series 45th Parallel, now in its second season, which was founded by OSO violinist Gregory Ewer.\u00a0 Entitled Old School @ The Old Church, it's a salon-style\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2180,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/19\/247-beethoven-rehearsal\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":3},"title":"24\/7 beethoven rehearsal","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Crane, Howie Baggadonutz and Thomas Lauderdale have been organizing an event called 24\/7: 24 concerts in 24 hours featuring many of Portland's best musicians, all commemorating the seventh anniversary of the U.S. war in Iraq.\u00c2\u00a0 This marathon concert event will take place in the atrium of the Wieden+Kennedy building,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"24-7_logo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/24-7_logo-200x126.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":70,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/26\/first-concert-of-2nd-decade-is-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":4},"title":"First concert of 2nd decade is done&#8230;","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight we played a mixed-bag sort of program as part of the symphony-in-the-parks concerts at Harrison Park in S.E. Portland. We had a pretty good crowd, and the weather was warm (high 80's) though the sun was largely down by the time we got to the 7 p.m. start time.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","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":12974,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/07\/haas-third-quartet-coming-up-in-portland\/","url_meta":{"origin":5341,"position":5},"title":"haas third quartet &#8211; coming up in Portland","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A short time ago I briefly wrote about preparing for the upcoming Third Angle performances of Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 3 \"In iij noct\". After having several rehearsals over the past two weeks, and really inhabiting the piece (though not in complete darkness just yet), I really cannot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;new music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"new music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/new-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"pica","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pica.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","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=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}