{"id":49837,"date":"2015-03-15T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/15\/to-a-swell-concert-mistress.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:30:42","slug":"to-a-swell-concert-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/15\/to-a-swell-concert-mistress.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;To a swell concert mistress&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom ran across this a few weeks back while cleaning the garage &#8212; a box with scrapbooks from her high school and college days.<\/p>\n<p>In the high school category, she found a program from the 1953 All Cal High School Orchestra that gathered in Santa Barbara once a year. In &#39;53, a young Hal Hill, who lived in Bakersfield, was at the event as principal cello and a soloist, while while a young Gloria Vial, who was living in Santa Barbara, was concertmistress on the violin.<\/p>\n<p>After the event, they headed back to their respective homes, with only some well-wishes scribbled on programs to recall the meeting. Certainly they had no idea that they would encounter each other again at Stanford in a couple of years, let alone eventually marry after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>A neat little bit of family history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6126686788020529825\/6126686796155458162'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-wjx7bsK3eVI\/VQZdLjbsEnI\/AAAAAAADLOY\/rzlqCSnEIy0\/Hal%2BNote%2Bto%2BGloria%2B1953.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/W6xM4nAzJQ7'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom ran across this a few weeks back while cleaning the garage &#8212; a box with scrapbooks from her high school and college days. In the high school category, she found a program from the 1953 All Cal High School Orchestra that gathered in Santa Barbara once a year. In &#39;53, a young Hal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/15\/to-a-swell-concert-mistress.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;To a swell concert mistress&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,713,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-band-school-daze","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hal+Note+to+Gloria+1953.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24927,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/nomtastic-dinner.html","url_meta":{"origin":49837,"position":0},"title":"Nomtastic dinner","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Dec-11 11:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We went to Olio e Limone in Santa Barbara, a place I've been to a few times before, as our \"final dinner of the Xanadu trip \/ way to avoid driving through LA at Rush Hour\" meal.The food was fantastic, as usual. 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