{"id":249,"date":"2007-01-30T07:36:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T07:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/01\/30\/oes-thanks\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T07:36:41","slug":"oes-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/01\/30\/oes-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"OES- Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">To the January 2007 incarnation of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Oregon<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">East Symphony-<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Just a very quick shout out to everyone who played in the last OES concert, from the lifers to the new faces\u2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">It was a tough week, a tough schedule, a tough program, lousy weather, cold building, over-worked staff, over-worked musicians,\u00a0bad piano. Nobody would have blamed you if things had been a bit half-assed at the concert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">GREAT WORK. I\u2019m still smiling when I think about it. I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t tell you just how hard Beethoven 6 really is, but I can tell you now that it is just about the hardest piece in the repertoire, and you all captured what was hardest about it (the notes are just very difficult, but the music is nearly impossible). Well done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I hope the town appreciates you all as much as I do. I\u2019ve certainly heard from the audience\u00a0at that concert\u00a0that they do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Ken\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/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\/2007\/01\/30\/oes-thanks\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the January 2007 incarnation of the Oregon East Symphony-\u00a0 \u00a0 Just a very quick shout out to everyone who played in the last OES concert, from the lifers to the new faces\u2026.\u00a0 \u00a0 It was a tough week, a tough schedule, a tough program, lousy weather, cold building, over-worked staff, over-worked musicians,\u00a0bad piano. Nobody [&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":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-performing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}