{"id":3723,"date":"2012-03-01T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2012-03-01T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T11:45:39","slug":"music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Nation: Olympic curtain-raiser across the UK this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees not only the all-day Sunday rehearsal with the University Chorus and Orchestra for next week&#8217;s concert (end of shameless plug&#8230;), but across the country, the cultural curtain-raiser event, &#8216;<a title=\"Visit weblink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makingmusic.org.uk\/our-work\/projects-and-programmes\/London-2012-Cultural-Olympiad\/music-nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Music Nation<\/strong><\/a>,&#8217; to the London Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>A joint venture between the Olympic organisation committee and the BBC, as the webpage proclaims,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Music Nation&#8217;s programme will showcase the best of the UK&#8217;s musical talent through ambitious and innovative partnerships and musical performances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makingmusic.org.uk\/our-work\/projects-and-programmes\/London-2012-Cultural-Olympiad\/music-nation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.makingmusic.org.uk\/Resources\/Making%20Music\/Images\/Sub%20Home%20Page\/Music%20Nation%20w%20festival%20mark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: makingmusic.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Click<a title=\"Visit weblink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makingmusic.org.uk\/our-work\/projects-and-programmes\/London-2012-Cultural-Olympiad\/music-nation\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> here<\/strong><\/a> to find out more: there&#8217;s also a day of programmed events being <a title=\"Visit weblink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio3\/programmes\/schedules\/2012\/03\/04\" target=\"_blank\">broadcast on Radio 3 on Sunday<\/a>. (Those of us in the rehearsal that day will just have to catch up on iPlayer!).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/&amp;t=Music Nation: Olympic curtain-raiser across the UK this weekend' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Music Nation: Olympic curtain-raiser across the UK this weekend%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/&amp;title=Music Nation: Olympic curtain-raiser across the UK this weekend' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/&amp;title=Music Nation: Olympic curtain-raiser across the UK this weekend' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend sees not only the all-day Sunday rehearsal with the University Chorus and Orchestra for next week&#8217;s concert (end of shameless plug&#8230;), but across the country, the cultural curtain-raiser event, &#8216;Music Nation,&#8217; to the London Olympics. A joint venture between the Olympic organisation committee and the BBC, as the webpage proclaims, Music Nation&#8217;s programme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/01\/music-nation-olympic-curtain-raiser-across-the-uk-this-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Nation: Olympic curtain-raiser across the UK this weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1110],"tags":[14537,14535,1004],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}