{"id":7563,"date":"2012-04-30T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:23:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:23:15","slug":"maximum-maximillian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/30\/maximum-maximillian\/","title":{"rendered":"maximum maximillian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Max Ball (he&#8217;s 9 years old) is a violinist, cellist, pianist, and composer. Not suitably impressed? Well, he also does his own piano reductions of wee masterpieces like Stravinsky&#8217;s <em>Rite of Spring<\/em>. And he lives right here in Portland! Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><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\/X-XoICvUWWE?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Max Ball (he&#8217;s 9 years old) is a violinist, cellist, pianist, and composer. Not suitably impressed? Well, he also does his own piano reductions of wee masterpieces like Stravinsky&#8217;s Rite of Spring. And he lives right here in Portland! Take a listen:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[167,1027],"tags":[3039,3038,53,3040,2991,3041],"class_list":["post-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-composition","category-piano-music","tag-composer","tag-max-ball","tag-piano","tag-reduction","tag-rite-of-spring","tag-show-and-tell","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1XZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6958,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/06\/fear-no-piano-riot\/","url_meta":{"origin":7563,"position":0},"title":"fear no piano riot!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The pioneering Portland new music ensemble FearNoMusic will present A Piano Riot!, a concert full of works for multiple grand pianos and percussion, at Kaul Auditorium on the Reed College campus, on Sunday, October 9th at 8 p.m. The riot in the program title refers to the arrangement of Stravinsky's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;contemporary&quot;","block_context":{"text":"contemporary","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/contemporary\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/89644a.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7528,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/24\/oregon-symphony-broadcast-schedule-announced\/","url_meta":{"origin":7563,"position":1},"title":"oregon symphony broadcast schedule announced","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally! 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