{"id":340,"date":"2018-07-02T10:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/?p=340"},"modified":"2018-07-02T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:49:55","slug":"welcome-to-issue-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Issue 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Issue 5! This time we are travelling east (well, east if you start in Europe at least) &#8211; first of all to Russia, with works by Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky, and then over to Xi\u2019an in China. We start with Susanna M\u00e4lkki, Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, talking in detail about conducting one of her favourite Russian works, the undisputed masterpiece <em>The Rite of Spring. <\/em>Nurhan Arman, Music Director of Canada&#8217;s Sinfonia Toronto, follows with Tchaikovsky\u2019s beautiful Serenade for Strings<em>.<\/em> And finally Jonathan Lo, Principal Guest Conductor of the Xi\u2019an Symphony Orchestra, talks about his work with the Xi\u2019an Symphony Orchestra, and bringing Western Classical Music to Chinese audiences. A real variety!<\/p>\n<p>I do hope you enjoy them, and find them beneficial to your conducting practice. A reminder to follow <em>Notes from the Podium <\/em>on both twitter (@notesfrompodium)\u00a0and Facebook if you\u2019d like to see updates\/make suggestions etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Summer!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Hannah Baxter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Issue 5! This time we are travelling east (well, east if you start in Europe at least) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","pmpro-has-access","clearfix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YX8Q-5u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}