{"id":7970,"date":"2012-10-23T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T01:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2012-10-24T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T00:17:08","slug":"random-thought-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/23\/random-thought-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"random thought dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of work to do this week, so there&#8217;s not a huge amount of time to devote to a coherent blog post. Instead I will devote this post to frequent updates of the\u00a0minuscule\u00a0sort (yes, I know I should have a tumblr for this, but I don&#8217;t need yet another thing to write for!).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10\/23 @ 6:15pm &#8211; On Thomas Ad\u00e9s&#8217; music: Listening to it feels a bit like looking at Victorian era pornography. Everyone is so formal and seemingly\u00a0straight-laced, but what are they doing to each other?!<\/li>\n<li>10\/23 @ 10:37pm &#8211; Schumann&#8217;s music is, for me, some of the hardest music to effectively realize. It is so changeable, so quirky, and so\u00a0<em>human<\/em>. That&#8217;s why I love working on it in spite of the challenges it presents.<\/li>\n<li>10\/24 @ 5:09pm &#8211; Schubert&#8217;s &#8216;Death and the Maiden&#8217; quartet is so brilliant. Even if it didn&#8217;t have the incredible variation movement at its heart, it would still be a masterpiece. His late chamber works (as late as they can be when he died at the age of just 32) are so miraculous, it&#8217;s a wonder that such works came out of a life that was often so miserable. I guess that&#8217;s part of what makes music so incredible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of work to do this week, so there&#8217;s not a huge amount of time to devote to a coherent blog post. Instead I will devote this post to frequent updates of the\u00a0minuscule\u00a0sort (yes, I know I should have a tumblr for this, but I don&#8217;t need yet another thing to write for!). 10\/23 @ [&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":[148,503,2],"tags":[3164,544],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-string-quartet","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-asyla","tag-thomas-ades"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-24y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":875,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/23\/thomas-ades-nytimes-profile\/","url_meta":{"origin":7970,"position":0},"title":"thomas ad\u00c3\u00a9s nytimes profile","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"G. 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