{"id":7047,"date":"2015-11-12T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2015-11-12T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:15:34","slug":"winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter is coming: the Sinfonia in rehearsal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In rehearsal yesterday, the String Sinfonia as it prepares for its first concert of the year next month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7048\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0283.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0283\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0283.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2015\/11\/IMG_0283-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>The players were working on sections of Handel&#8217;s <em>Messiah, <\/em>as well as Vivaldi&#8217;s &#8216;Winter&#8217; with soloist Elina Hakanen, developing some of those rigorous and dramatic <em>tutti<\/em> sections alongside the more lyrical central movement. The group is also preparing Vivaldi&#8217;s Double Oboe Concerto with soloists second-year Jonathan Butten and lecturer in BioSciences, Dan Lloyd (pictured).<\/p>\n<p>The concert on <strong>Friday 4 December<\/strong> opens the Christmas season in Colyer-Fergusson with some sparkling music of the Baroque; details <a href=\"http:\/\/kent.ac.uk\/music\/whatson.html?tab=december\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, come and launch the festive period with us and some popular musical favourites.<\/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\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/&amp;t=Winter is coming: the Sinfonia in rehearsal' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Winter is coming: the Sinfonia in rehearsal%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/' 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\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/' 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\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/&amp;title=Winter is coming: the Sinfonia in rehearsal' 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\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/&amp;title=Winter is coming: the Sinfonia in rehearsal' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rehearsal yesterday, the String Sinfonia as it prepares for its first concert of the year next month. The players were working on sections of Handel&#8217;s Messiah, as well as Vivaldi&#8217;s &#8216;Winter&#8217; with soloist Elina Hakanen, developing some of those rigorous and dramatic tutti sections alongside the more lyrical central movement. The group is also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/11\/12\/winter-is-coming-the-sinfonia-in-rehearsal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter is coming: the Sinfonia in rehearsal<\/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":[139524,6904,14606,6914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047"}],"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=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}