{"id":328,"date":"2007-05-03T17:07:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/05\/03\/into-the-maelstrom\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:31:07","slug":"into-the-maelstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/05\/03\/into-the-maelstrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the maelstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I sit in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Portland<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Airport<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> and I\u2019m feeling a little anxious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">n less than two hours, I\u2019ll be back in Pendleton for the first time since the OES offices burned down. I tried hard to get over a few weeks ago, but we had an illness in the family (what is it about bad things coming in threes?), so I have yet to see the damage, or the larger impact it\u2019s had on the orchestra, in person. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I\u2019m hoping this week will be good for everyone there. We\u2019re in constant email and phone contact, and I\u2019m all too aware that the board and everyone in the office has been in 24\/7 crisis management mode for weeks. Now, we finally get a chance to get back to music, to get some semblance of normalcy. Are we ready for normal? Do we now have the time and energy to put on a major concert? A Mahler symphony, no less? Oh yes, and a youth orchestra tour, retreat and concert, and a choir performance\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">As befits \u201cthe best goddamn redneck orchestra in the world,\u201d we\u2019ve moved from temporary office no 1, the bank, into temporary office no. 2, \u2018the trailer.\u201d Yes, we\u2019ve\u00a0traded our elegant offices for\u2026. a double-wide! Could it get any funnier? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Actually, we\u2019re closing in on some long term plans for the orchestra which are really bold and visionary. Watch this space. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">The imposing facade<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 514px; height: 342px\" height=\"342\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/images\/OES_Moves_to_Tennis_Center_Trailer_003.jpg\" width=\"514\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">The warm welcome<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 516px; height: 401px\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/images\/OES_Moves_to_Tennis_Center_Trailer_005.jpg\" width=\"516\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I don&#8217;t know if it just got harder or easier to maintain our sense of irony.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/oesdonation\">Give us your money<\/a> and get us out of here!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos by Christina van der Kamp<\/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\/05\/03\/into-the-maelstrom\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit in Portland Airport and I\u2019m feeling a little anxious. In less than two hours, I\u2019ll be back in Pendleton for the first time since the OES offices burned down. I tried hard to get over a few weeks ago, but we had an illness in the family (what is it about bad things [&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-328","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\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}