{"id":5734,"date":"2011-01-20T13:26:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:35:47","slug":"jennifer-higdon-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/20\/jennifer-higdon-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"jennifer higdon in portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5735\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/resolutions_higdon.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5735\" title=\"resolutions_higdon\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/resolutions_higdon-400x300.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Higdon - Photo: Sarah R. Bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jennifer Higdon, who has a familial connection to Portland, will be returning to oversee the Oregon Symphony rehearsals and performances of her Percussion Concerto (2005), with percussion superstar Colin Currie.\u00a0 It will be a great pleasure to see her, and I hope to have some sort of special blog feature on her available during that time (perhaps even a first-ever *gasp* podcast!).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5736\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ColinCurrie3cChrisDawes_orig.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5736\" title=\"ColinCurrie3(c)ChrisDawes_orig\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ColinCurrie3cChrisDawes_orig-266x400.jpg?resize=266%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Currie - Photo: Chris Dawes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Video: watch Colin Currie play the cadenza from Jennifer&#8217;s Percussion Concerto:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/NDKvMcLmdTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tickets and info <a href=\"http:\/\/tickets.orsymphony.org\/single\/psDetail.aspx?psn=1312\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Higdon, who has a familial connection to Portland, will be returning to oversee the Oregon Symphony rehearsals and performances of her Percussion Concerto (2005), with percussion superstar Colin Currie.\u00a0 It will be a great pleasure to see her, and I hope to have some sort of special blog feature on her available during that [&hellip;]<\/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":[167,135,2],"tags":[2400,2123,541,3668,2505],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-soloists-recitals","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-carlos-kalmar","tag-colin-currie","tag-jennifer-higdon","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-percussion-concerto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3964,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/higdon-percussion-concerto\/","url_meta":{"origin":5734,"position":0},"title":"higdon percussion concerto","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"On heels of the Percussion Concerto receiving a GRAMMY, and its being programmed on next year's Oregon Symphony season, I thought it might be nice to get a preview. \u00a0Here's Colin Currie (who will play the piece here in Portland) with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. 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