{"id":982,"date":"2008-05-20T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T01:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=982"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:56:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:56:42","slug":"berlin-philharmonie-damaged-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/20\/berlin-philharmonie-damaged-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"berlin philharmonie damaged by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 5px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/media\/ALeqM5gSCUYBmMyQSexaRIVub4k1IHbm4Q?size=m\" alt=\"(AP Photo\/Herbert Knosowski)\" width=\"350\" height=\"222\" \/><br \/>\n(AP Photo\/Herbert Knosowski)<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon the Berlin Philharmonie, the renowned (both acoustically and visually) concert home of the Berlin Philharmonic, had its roof catch fire due to (purportedly) a welding mishap.\u00c2\u00a0 The full extent of the damage is not yet known, but according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/article3972723.ece\">Times<\/a>, the Berlin fire service reports that the main auditorium (where the Philharmonic rehearses and gives concerts) was not seriously damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some recently updated links to the story.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ALeqM5h-xVWwGKdyYoVeLOZQmoWSPWRtkw\">AFP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5j3eBGqKHW_94Nc_2oBka-iEB3SGwD90PLPL01\">Associated Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0,,2281162,00.html\">The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/Firefighters-work-into-night-as.4103138.jp\">Scotsman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ALeqM5h-xVWwGKdyYoVeLOZQmoWSPWRtkw1\">Google News page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that I&#8217;m just about the last music blogger in the world to mention this, but I thought I&#8217;d add the twist that I&#8217;ve received a few wistful emails (typical of musician gallows humor) from OSO musicians wondering why this couldn&#8217;t have happened to the Schnitz&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP Photo\/Herbert Knosowski) This afternoon the Berlin Philharmonie, the renowned (both acoustically and visually) concert home of the Berlin Philharmonic, had its roof catch fire due to (purportedly) a welding mishap.\u00c2\u00a0 The full extent of the damage is not yet known, but according to the Times, the Berlin fire service reports that the main auditorium [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[1,2],"tags":[310,131],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-berlin-philharmonic","tag-concert-hall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2102,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/09\/dudamel-in-berlin\/","url_meta":{"origin":982,"position":0},"title":"dudamel in berlin","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Berlin Philharmonic offers a free video trailer of Dudamel's concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic.\u00c2\u00a0 The video clip features a rehearsal segment from near the end of Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.\u00c2\u00a0 Worth watching - 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