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Sunday night, Lajos Balogh conducted his final concert with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony. It’s truly the end of an era, as Balogh was the founding conductor of the organization, which was formed in 1974, while Lajos was principal second violin of the Oregon Symphony (in which capacity he served for 27 years). Bravo for all of your years of service to the future of music, Lajos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday night, Lajos Balogh conducted his final concert with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony. It’s truly the end of an era, as Balogh was the founding conductor of the organization, which was formed in 1974, while Lajos was principal second violin of the Oregon Symphony (in which capacity he served for 27 years). Bravo for all […]<\/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":[299,1057],"tags":[3068,3066,3067],"class_list":["post-7659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conducting","category-teaching-music","tag-final-concert","tag-lajos-balogh","tag-metropolitan-youth-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1Zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/26\/turnover\/","url_meta":{"origin":7659,"position":0},"title":"turnover","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"After being faced with the very real prospect (albeit briefly) of leaving the orchestra for another position, my thoughts have turned to the many people who I have watched leave, either through retirement, resignation or moving on to another job. 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