{"id":7133,"date":"2011-12-12T18:26:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T02:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:59:51","slug":"a-very-worthy-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/12\/a-very-worthy-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"a very worthy cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7134\" title=\"bart_rebf_head\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bart_rebf_head-e1323743305121.jpg?resize=545%2C96\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just finished giving money to a wonderful organization that helps young musicians, and I strongly urge you to do the same. The organization is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/home.html\">Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation<\/a>, which provides resources for young string musicians. Rachel Barton is a Chicago-based violinist who has a busy solo career (and happened to record the Brahms and Joachim concertos with our own maestro Carlos Kalmar), and who is also very interested in giving back to her community and fellow musicians around the world. There are several areas of focus for the foundation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ssl.html\">String Student&#8217;s Library of Music by Black Composers<\/a> that seeks to research, commission and collect music for string players by composers of African descent;<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/loan.html\">Instrument Loan Program<\/a>, that provides high-quality instruments for recipients who otherwise might not be able to afford such an instrument;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grants.html\">Grants for Education and Career<\/a>, which provides for expenses not normally covered by traditional scholarships, such as accompanists&#8217; fees, sheet music, travel expenses to competitions, and competition entry fees;<\/li>\n<li>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ghs.html\">Global HeartStrings<\/a>, which provides basic musical supplies for musicians in developing nations. Currently, GHS is involved in Haiti, Kenja, Ghana, and Nigeria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I strongly urge you to support this worthy organization in your holiday giving this year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/noble_sig.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" title=\"noble_sig.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/noble_sig.jpg?resize=100%2C47\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished giving money to a wonderful organization that helps young musicians, and I strongly urge you to do the same. The organization is the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation, which provides resources for young string musicians. Rachel Barton is a Chicago-based violinist who has a busy solo career (and happened to record the Brahms [&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_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":[103],"tags":[2887,2888,2886,2889,3659],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","tag-charity","tag-holiday-giving","tag-rachel-elizabeth-barton-foundation","tag-stringed-instruments","tag-violin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1R3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1332,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/24\/rachel-barton-pine-on-strad-cover-this-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":7133,"position":0},"title":"rachel barton pine on strad cover this month","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, who has appeared twice with the Sunriver Music Festival - making a huge positive impression both times - is the featured artist in this month's issue of The Strad - a leading stringed instrument magazine. 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It was nice to have some time to hike (Newberry Crater trail) and bike (the 40 miles of bike paths in Sunriver) and just hang out with my friends and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;the orchestra world&quot;","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":415,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/20\/in-situ\/","url_meta":{"origin":7133,"position":2},"title":"in situ","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm once again back in PDX, and pretty tired from a busy two weeks at the Sunriver Music Festival. 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That is all.] I have been puzzling over this question for the past few days. What\u00a0do we musicians want? I suppose I should clarify by what I mean by the musician label. We are,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7911,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/01\/right-war-wrong-enemy\/","url_meta":{"origin":7133,"position":4},"title":"right war, wrong enemy","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"These are what the Chinese would call 'interesting' times - as in the curse 'may you live in interesting times' - for orchestras and their musicians. 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