{"id":5568,"date":"2010-11-12T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:33:37","slug":"r-i-p-henryk-gorecki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/12\/r-i-p-henryk-gorecki\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Henryk Gorecki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Polish composer Henryk Gorecki passed away today at the age of 76. \u00a0The local memorial to this great composer (known best for his Symphony No. 3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”) will be a performance by the Arnica Quartet of his First String Quartet “Already it is Dusk” at a concert presented by Marzena on Friday, March 25, 2011.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link<\/a> to NPR’s blog post about Gorecki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Polish composer Henryk Gorecki passed away today at the age of 76. \u00a0The local memorial to this great composer (known best for his Symphony No. 3 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”) will be a performance by the Arnica Quartet of his First String Quartet “Already it is Dusk” at a concert presented by Marzena 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_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":[148,167],"tags":[2440,2437,2439,2438],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-composition","tag-first-string-quartet","tag-henryk-gorecki","tag-marzena","tag-obituary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1rO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5966,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/13\/marz-oddz-and-endz\/","url_meta":{"origin":5568,"position":0},"title":"marz oddz and endz","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Arnica Quartet is in the midst of rehearsing for a very interesting program, part of Marzena's March Music Moderne series, that's coming up at 8:00 p.m. Friday, March 25th at the Community Music Center, 3350 SE Francis (free admission). 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