{"id":6840,"date":"2015-07-08T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T09:22:26","slug":"dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch youth orchestra visits Colyer-Fergusson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to welcome the<strong> Almere Youth Symphony Orchestra<\/strong> to Colyer-Fergusson on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from a city in the heart of the Netherlands,\u00a0the age-range of\u00a0the orchestral members is\u00a0between 13 to 21. Under the baton of conductor Hans Welle, they demonstrated\u00a0a\u00a0high standard of playing, performing a\u00a0range of music with the emphasis on English pieces &#8211; from music from <em>James Bond<\/em> through to a beautiful performance of Elgar&#8217;s &#8216;Nimrod&#8217; and one of the fastest versions\u00a0 of the\u00a0<em>Pomp and Circumstance<\/em> March I have ever heard!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6841\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/07\/Almere_Youth_Orchestra.jpg\" alt=\"Almere_Youth_Orchestra\" width=\"450\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/07\/Almere_Youth_Orchestra.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/07\/Almere_Youth_Orchestra-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>It was\u00a0a real pleasure to have them visit, and we hope they will come back again soon.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/&amp;t=Dutch youth orchestra visits Colyer-Fergusson' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Dutch youth orchestra visits Colyer-Fergusson%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/' 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\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/' 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\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/&amp;title=Dutch youth orchestra visits Colyer-Fergusson' 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\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/&amp;title=Dutch youth orchestra visits Colyer-Fergusson' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to welcome the Almere Youth Symphony Orchestra to Colyer-Fergusson on Sunday. Hailing from a city in the heart of the Netherlands,\u00a0the age-range of\u00a0the orchestral members is\u00a0between 13 to 21. Under the baton of conductor Hans Welle, they demonstrated\u00a0a\u00a0high standard of playing, performing a\u00a0range of music with the emphasis on English pieces &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/07\/08\/dutch-youth-orchestra-visits-colyer-fergusson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dutch youth orchestra visits Colyer-Fergusson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":6841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[201464,1111,1110],"tags":[139488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840"}],"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=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}