{"id":1121,"date":"2009-11-24T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2009-11-24T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:22:21","slug":"uw-weeks-pre-first-rehearsal-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/11\/24\/uw-weeks-pre-first-rehearsal-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Weeks- pre first rehearsal thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In about 2 hours, I\u2019m going to start rehearsals for my concert next week with the UW-Madison Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>There are gigs, and then there are gigs- this is really a gig of gigs \u00a0for me. I\u2019m a Madison native and a faculty brat (my dad is still teaching from the same office in the Chemistry building he moved into the year before I was born), and as it happens, not only did I more or less grow up going to UW Sym concerts, it was probably the first orchestra I heard in concert. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t begin to count how many concerts I went to hear, how many I played in, or how many pieces I heard for the first time as a kid on that stage.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I don\u2019t have much more to say than that- it just seems like a moment that should be treasured. I intend to enjoy every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d told a six year old Ken that one day I\u2019d be conducting that very orchestra (or the same orchestra with 100% different personnel!) in a concert of Elgar and Mahler, you can only imagine what I\u2019d have said\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho the hell is Elgar?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/11\/24\/uw-weeks-pre-first-rehearsal-thoughts\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In about 2 hours, I\u2019m going to start rehearsals for my concert next week with the UW-Madison Symphony. There are gigs, and then there are gigs- this is really a gig of gigs \u00a0for me. I\u2019m a Madison native and a faculty brat (my dad is still teaching from the same office in the Chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,188,1064],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","tag-elgar","tag-journeys","tag-mahler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}