…must come to an end, and so, today is the last day of work for us at the Oregon Symphony until the 2008-2009 season begins in late August.\u00c2\u00a0 Fittingly, tonight’s concert is a thank you to all of our hard working donors and volunteers who have helped to keep the OSO in business for yet another season (no small feat for any orchestra) and have made our performances worthwhile by being enthusiastic audiences and supporters.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s also fitting that the major work of the program, Bruckner’s mighty Fourth Symphony, is being performed side-by-side with members of the Portland Youth Philharmonic.\u00c2\u00a0 Their youth, energy, and virtuosity is fun to be on stage with, and it’s nice to share the end of the season with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…must come to an end, and so, today is the last day of work for us at the Oregon Symphony until the 2008-2009 season begins in late August.\u00c2\u00a0 Fittingly, tonight’s concert is a thank you to all of our hard working donors and volunteers who have helped to keep the OSO in business for yet […]<\/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_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":[115,2],"tags":[3668,766,62],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-portland-youth-philharmonic","tag-symphony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7510,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/17\/two-mini-bombshells\/","url_meta":{"origin":984,"position":0},"title":"two mini bombshells","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 17, 2012","format":"aside","excerpt":"Just learned of these two news items in the local Portland classical scene via the always excellent Oregon ArtsWatch: Huw Edwards, conductor of the Portland Columbia Symphony for the past 12 seasons, will resign his position effective the end of this season. 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