{"id":7060,"date":"2011-11-11T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:57:45","slug":"this-is-why-we-dont-look-at-the-conductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/11\/this-is-why-we-dont-look-at-the-conductor\/","title":{"rendered":"this is why we don’t look at the conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a fellow member of the Oregon Symphony for finding this gem<\/a> on YouTube. Be careful, you won’t be able to un-see this – proceed at your own risk! Video capture after the jump. Even scarier in motion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Andris Nelsons at the BBC Proms 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a fellow member of the Oregon Symphony for finding this gem on YouTube. Be careful, you won’t be able to un-see this – proceed at your own risk! Video capture after the jump. Even scarier in motion.<\/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":[299],"tags":[2369,2854,2701,2856,2700,2855],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","tag-2369","tag-andris-nelsons","tag-bbc","tag-clown","tag-proms","tag-scary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1PS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6520,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/30\/piazzolla-trumpet-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":7060,"position":0},"title":"piazzolla + trumpet = hot","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Here's a video from the BBC Last Night at the Proms which features trumpet femme fatale Alison Balsom playing an arrangement of Astor Piazzolla's Libertango. 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