{"id":988,"date":"2008-05-23T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=988"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:57:27","slug":"local-musician-with-ties-to-china-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/23\/local-musician-with-ties-to-china-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"local musician with ties to china earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Stabler has a gripping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jay_chen.html\">blog entry<\/a> about trumpeter Jay Chen, whose brother and his family live in the city of Chengdu, about 50 miles from the epicenter of the recent magnitude 7.8 earthquake.\u00c2\u00a0 I cannot imagine the hell of having to wait for three days to know if my brother and his family were still alive, as Jay did.<\/p>\n<p>Jay has been a frequent substitute\/extra with the OSO over the past few years, and I know that all of us with the orchestra and in the musical community at large wish him and his family well.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also producing a benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake, to be held on Sunday, June 1 at 4:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church (1838 SW Jefferson Street).<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds go to the Red Cross fund for victims of the earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Stabler has a gripping blog entry about trumpeter Jay Chen, whose brother and his family live in the city of Chengdu, about 50 miles from the epicenter of the recent magnitude 7.8 earthquake.\u00c2\u00a0 I cannot imagine the hell of having to wait for three days to know if my brother and his family were [&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":[1],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-trumpet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3851,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/19\/songs-for-haiti-benefit-thursday\/","url_meta":{"origin":988,"position":0},"title":"songs for haiti benefit thursday","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first local, large-scale benefit for victims of the Hatian earthquake that I know of, organized by local dynamo\/musician\/blogger\/organizer Stephen Marc Beaudoin. \u00a0It's called Songs for Haiti, and it features a who's who of local Portland's classical and non-classical musicians. \u00a0And it benefits Mercy Corps, which is notable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;fundraising&quot;","block_context":{"text":"fundraising","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/fundraising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4654,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/14\/dont-be-alarmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":988,"position":1},"title":"don&#8217;t be alarmed","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If you feel the earth tremble beneath your feet starting Thursday Friday afternoon, don't be alarmed, it's not an earthquake.\u00a0 It will be the sound of dozens of timpanists vying for the timpani position being vacated by the retiring Paul Salvatore at the end of this season.\u00a0 A timpocalypse!\u00a0 Did\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;auditions&quot;","block_context":{"text":"auditions","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/auditions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6012,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/18\/portland-taiko-japan-relief-concert\/","url_meta":{"origin":988,"position":2},"title":"portland taiko japan relief concert","author":"Charles Noble","date":"March 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Portland Taiko, in coordination with the Portland State University Department of Music, will be giving a benefit concert for the relief efforts in Japan following the massive earthquake and tsunami which have ravaged the country. 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