{"id":5702,"date":"2011-01-06T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2011-01-06T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:51:54","slug":"great-violist-passes-portland-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/06\/great-violist-passes-portland-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"great violist passes &#8211; portland connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5703\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/raphael_hillyer.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5703\" title=\"raphael_hillyer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/raphael_hillyer.jpg?resize=200%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raphael Hillyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The great Raphael Hillyer, founding violist of the Juilliard Quartet, has passed away at the age of 97.\u00a0 This titan of the viola (and string quartet) world has a Portland connection: one of his children, from his second marriage, Reiko Hillyer, lives here.\u00a0 I had no idea!<\/p>\n<p>NY Times obituary [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/06\/arts\/music\/06hillyer.html\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great Raphael Hillyer, founding violist of the Juilliard Quartet, has passed away at the age of 97.\u00a0 This titan of the viola (and string quartet) world has a Portland connection: one of his children, from his second marriage, Reiko Hillyer, lives here.\u00a0 I had no idea! NY Times obituary [link]<\/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":[22],"tags":[2438,2488],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viola","tag-obituary","tag-raphael-hillyer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1tY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1996,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/02\/my-fondest-dream-did-come-true\/","url_meta":{"origin":5702,"position":0},"title":"my fondest dream did come true!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote in a previous post that my fondest dream would be to be greeted just offstage with a frosty beer. 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