{"id":3753,"date":"2012-03-26T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T09:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2012-03-26T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T09:21:40","slug":"blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing in the wind: new University Sirocco Ensemble to give its debut performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly and steadily rehearsing over the past few months, like a beautiful butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, the newly-founded <strong>University Sirocco Ensemble<\/strong> is set to make its debut at the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3754\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2012\/03\/zephyr-cherub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" \/>Comprising wind and brass players from amongst the University staff, undergraduate and post-graduate students, the ensemble was founded during the autumn in order to accommodate the wealth of talented members of the University&#8217;s musical community. History and Drama students sit next to Anthropology and BioScience lecturers, and we&#8217;ve been putting together Gounod&#8217;s popular and playful <em>Petite Symphonie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-piece\u00a0 Sirocco Ensemble will be giving its inaugural performance in a lunchtime concert on <strong>Friday 30 March at 12.30pm<\/strong> at St Peter&#8217;s Methodist Church, in Canterbury, where it will share the programme with the University Chamber Choir in what promises to be terrific final musical flourish to the spring term.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is free, with a retiring collection; more details <a title=\"View event details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/music\/whatson.html?tab=march\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come and support the newest addition to the University&#8217;s music-making at the end of the month.<\/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\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/&amp;t=Blowing in the wind: new University Sirocco Ensemble to give its debut performance' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Blowing in the wind: new University Sirocco Ensemble to give its debut performance%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/' 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\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/' 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\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/&amp;title=Blowing in the wind: new University Sirocco Ensemble to give its debut performance' 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\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/&amp;title=Blowing in the wind: new University Sirocco Ensemble to give its debut performance' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly and steadily rehearsing over the past few months, like a beautiful butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, the newly-founded University Sirocco Ensemble is set to make its debut at the end of this week. Comprising wind and brass players from amongst the University staff, undergraduate and post-graduate students, the ensemble was founded during the autumn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2012\/03\/26\/blowing-in-the-wind-new-university-sirocco-ensemble-to-give-its-debut-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blowing in the wind: new University Sirocco Ensemble to give its debut performance<\/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":[909],"tags":[943,14543,1068,14541,14542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753"}],"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=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}