{"id":100768,"date":"2024-10-26T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?post_type=ac_on_deck&#038;p=100768"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T21:10:06","slug":"on-deck-with-natalie-alexander","status":"publish","type":"ac_on_deck","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/on-deck\/on-deck-with-natalie-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"On Deck with Natalie Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Natalie Alexander<strong> <\/strong>is a 17-year old clarinetist with both the <a href=\"http:\/\/playmys.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/playmys.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metropolitan Youth Symphony<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandyouthphil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portland Youth Philharmonic<\/a>, and she envisions a future full of music.&nbsp; She wants to do it all: orchestra, chamber music, teaching.&nbsp; In this episode of On Deck, Lisa Lipton talks with Natalie about her interest in women composers, about leadership, and about taking advantage of every moment left in her high school career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the online exclusive below, Natalie shares her wish for a clarinet superpower. She also tells a really bad joke about the bass clarinet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2024\/10\/On-Deck-349-LL-Natalie-Alexander-Online-Exclusive-FINAL.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":100787,"template":"","class_list":["post-100768","ac_on_deck","type-ac_on_deck","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"ACF":{"video_fields":false},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_on_deck\/100768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_on_deck"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac_on_deck"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}