{"id":733,"date":"2008-02-04T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T23:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/04\/what-do-you-play\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:39:16","slug":"what-do-you-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/04\/what-do-you-play\/","title":{"rendered":"what do you play?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I got to work last night, I was immediately accosted by our Assistant principal oboist, Karen Wagner, who was all excited about the Super Bowl. I asked if she was a Giants fan. No &#8211; did you see that commercial with the NFL player who is also an oboist????!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had not &#8211; but fear not, the internet came to the rescue. Now, we can all enjoy it, even if we&#8217;re not football fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eNOHM8Oej5s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got to work last night, I was immediately accosted by our Assistant principal oboist, Karen Wagner, who was all excited about the Super Bowl. I asked if she was a Giants fan. No &#8211; did you see that commercial with the NFL player who is also an oboist????!!!! I had not &#8211; but [&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":[115,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-bP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3608,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/14\/tis-the-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":0},"title":"&#8217;tis the season","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend brought two events that ostensibly revolved around the religious message of the Christmas season, but couldn't have been more different.\u00a0 Friday through Sunday nights were occupied by the 11th annual Oregon Symphony Gospel Christmas extravaganza.\u00a0 I had taken time off during this set of concerts for the past\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;appreciation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ncgc1_original","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ncgc1_original-400x266.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1865,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/classically-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":1},"title":"classically hot?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"February 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Arriana Ghez, Principal Oboist, LA Philharmonic Playboy is having an online poll for the \"sexiest babes of classical music\".\u00c2\u00a0 It seems apropos, as marketing female classical music stars via sex appeal is hardly a new phenomenon.\u00c2\u00a0 They're all fully clothed (and looking very fetching) - so if you're into this\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.playboy.com\/worldofplayboy\/features\/classical-babes\/imx\/ariana-ghez.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6909,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/17\/its-the-integrity-stupid\/","url_meta":{"origin":733,"position":2},"title":"it&#8217;s the integrity, stupid","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It often strikes me as being the epitome of irony that we performers, as artists who produce ephemeral products - as soon as they're played, they're gone - often so easily discard what is our most lasting and important legacy: our integrity. 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