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Even though the orchestra doesn’t start up again until Friday (rehearsing for the Joan Rivers special on Saturday), I’ve got another orchestra (quasi) gig going on this week.\u00a0 It’s a recording project with Ken Selden, conductor of the Portland State University Orchestra, and it’s pretty unusual.\u00a0 We’re working on Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, but a version that was arranged for chamber ensemble in 1921 by Erwin Stein, and Debussy’s Pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 l’apr\u00e8s-midi d’un faune,<\/em> arranged by Benno Sachs, both of whom were members of Arnold Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances<\/a>, which took large scale compositions of modern music, and distilling them into chamber-sized orchestrations that could be appreciated in small, private house concerts.\u00a0 Should be a very interesting week of playing two very familiar pieces in very unfamiliar versions.<\/p>\n

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Even though the orchestra doesn’t start up again until Friday (rehearsing for the Joan Rivers special on Saturday), I’ve got another orchestra (quasi) gig going on this week.\u00a0 It’s a recording project with Ken Selden, conductor of the Portland State University Orchestra, and it’s pretty unusual.\u00a0 We’re working on Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, but a version […]<\/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":[136,2],"tags":[2485,2486,2482,2483,2484],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-benno-sachs","tag-erwin-stein","tag-ken-selden","tag-portland-state-university","tag-society-for-private-musical-performances"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1tK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6822,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/27\/new-mahler-recording-from-psu\/","url_meta":{"origin":5688,"position":0},"title":"new mahler recording","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I just received my copy of the Martingale Ensemble's live recording from last January of the chamber versions of Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun under the direction of the PSU Orchestra director Ken Selden. 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