{"id":5587,"date":"2010-11-20T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:33:40","slug":"stephen-hough-loves-chocolate-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/20\/stephen-hough-loves-chocolate-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"stephen hough loves chocolate in portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5588\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stephen-Hough-High-Res-3-credit-Grant-Hiroshima.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5588\" title=\"Stephen Hough High Res 3 - credit Grant Hiroshima\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Stephen-Hough-High-Res-3-credit-Grant-Hiroshima-267x400.jpg?resize=267%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Hough - Photo: Grant Hiroshima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stephen Hough, our piano soloist this weekend (in the Liszt First Piano Concerto), arrived in Portland yesterday, and he quickly discovered the amazing chocolate shop (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/cacaodrinkchocolate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cacao<\/a>) which is conveniently located between the lobby of the Heathman Hotel (where most of our soloists stay) and the stage door of the hall.\u00a0 He then warned of quick tempos to come in the Liszt due to elevated caffeine levels!\u00a0 Read the blog entry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/does-portland-have-the-best-chocolate-shop-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hough, our piano soloist this weekend (in the Liszt First Piano Concerto), arrived in Portland yesterday, and he quickly discovered the amazing chocolate shop (Cacao) which is conveniently located between the lobby of the Heathman Hotel (where most of our soloists stay) and the stage door of the hall.\u00a0 He then warned of quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1027,135,2],"tags":[2445,2446,3668,1166],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano-music","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-cacao","tag-liszt","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-stephen-hough"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1s7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1497,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/07\/stephen-hough-as-teacher\/","url_meta":{"origin":5587,"position":0},"title":"stephen hough as teacher","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We all know the pianist Stephen Hough as one of the most briliant pianists on the concert stage today, but he's also very much in demand as a teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 Here's an excerpt of a master class DVD on which he teaches the Liszt Spanish Rhapsody and the Hungarian Rhapsody No.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"education","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12486,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/21\/angry-symphony-guy-strikes-again-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5587,"position":1},"title":"angry symphony guy strikes again!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"From Angry Symphony Guy (aka Classical Beaver, Brian Horay, Huffington Post guest blogger) posting at the Portland Mercury arts listing pages: STEPHEN HOUGH, OREGON SYMPHONY (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway) Chief cultural blogger for the Telegraph of London.\u00a0Prodigious recorder of more than 50 albums.\u00a0MacArthur genius.\u00a0Theologian. 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