{"id":5422,"date":"2010-10-10T06:42:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2010-10-10T23:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T06:40:28","slug":"winds-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/10\/winds-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"winds of change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night was our opening concert of the Classical ‘B’ series, and while there were a lot of the ‘B’ team on stage last night, there certainly was ‘A’ caliber playing to be heard.\u00a0 Please allow me to explain.\u00a0 It’s pretty common practice, mostly in the wind and brass sections, for principal players to take one or two works off to rest up for a major work on a program.\u00a0 When that happens, the assistant principal player moves up into the hot seat.<\/p>\n

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Alicia DiDonato Paulsen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The most prominent example of an assistant stepping up is flutist Alicia DiDonato Paulsen, filling in ever so ably for departed principal David Buck.\u00a0 She has come in and handled the job with seemingly effortless grace, and a sound that I cannot get enough of.\u00a0 She was given an especially well-deserved solo bow after the closing work on last night’s program, Liszt’s fiendish Mephisto Waltz<\/em> in it’s transcription for orchestra.\u00a0 Assistant principal oboist Karen Wagner, who distinguished herself last week in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, was principal last night for the Mendelssohn Fifth Symphony ‘Reformation’, as well as the Wagner Parsifal<\/em> first act prelude<\/span>, and did a great job all evening.\u00a0 And, finally, to round out the wind section shout outs, guest assistant principal Ebonee Thomas played just spectacularly in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in c minor, as did all of the other wind players in this most concertante<\/em> of piano concertos.\u00a0 The wind section is sounding just fabulous this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday night was our opening concert of the Classical ‘B’ series, and while there were a lot of the ‘B’ team on stage last night, there certainly was ‘A’ caliber playing to be heard.\u00a0 Please allow me to explain.\u00a0 It’s pretty common practice, mostly in the wind and brass sections, for principal players to take […]<\/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":[148,2107,2],"tags":[2399,3668],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-flute-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-alicia-didonato-paulsen","tag-oregon-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2301,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/06\/the-freelance-lifestyle\/","url_meta":{"origin":5422,"position":0},"title":"the freelance lifestyle","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a great story from the Boston Globe about the life of a typical freelancer in a major city.\u00c2\u00a0 Very good and enjoyable.\u00c2\u00a0 The featured musician, cellist Raphael Popper-Kaiser, is a friend of OSO assistant principal flute Alicia DiDonato Paulsen. 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