{"id":7080,"date":"2011-11-23T19:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:57:46","slug":"ten-musical-things-im-thankful-for-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/23\/ten-musical-things-im-thankful-for-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ten musical things I’m thankful for this year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. I have a job.<\/li>\n
  2. I have a job for which I trained for most of my life.<\/li>\n
  3. I have a job that I love.<\/li>\n
  4. That Carlos Kalmar is our music director.<\/li>\n
  5. That Elaine Calder is our president.<\/li>\n
  6. That we have a terrific staff that breaks their backs for us on a daily basis.<\/li>\n
  7. That Portland, Oregon is a wonderful place to live that also supports the arts in all its forms.<\/li>\n
  8. Our legions of Oregon Symphony fans, of all ages and income levels, that come out to see our concerts.<\/li>\n
  9. My 77 colleagues in the OSO, who all inspire, challenge, and make great music with me every day.<\/li>\n
  10. Everyone else who puts the music first, and performs with integrity, passion, and focus.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And my two bonus things that I’m thankful for: my wife Heather Blackburn, with whom I get to play chamber music not quite often enough; and my colleagues in the Arnica String Quartet<\/a>, who make the greatest music in the world a joy to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have a job. I have a job for which I trained for most of my life. I have a job that I love. That Carlos Kalmar is our music director. That Elaine Calder is our president. That we have a terrific staff that breaks their backs for us on a daily basis. That Portland, […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[3668,2867,2447,2866],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-thanks","tag-thanksgiving","tag-top-ten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Qc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8159,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/19\/norman-keeps-stormin\/","url_meta":{"origin":7080,"position":0},"title":"norman keeps stormin’","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night the Oregon Symphony played a run-out concert in Newberg - a smallish town at the northern end of the Oregon wine country. 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