{"id":12099,"date":"2020-02-19T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2020-10-01T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:12:07","slug":"music-jonny-easton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/02\/19\/music-jonny-easton\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Scholar spotlight: Jonny Easton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Easton, a first year student studying Italian in the Department of Modern Languages, is a University Music Performance Scholar, and features in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2020\/02\/17\/scholars-spotlight-jonny-easton\/\">University of Kent Music Department blog<\/a>. In this blog, Jonny talks about his involvement with the music scene on campus.<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cSince starting at the University, I have been involving myself in a number of groups: Symphony Orchestra; the Big Band; General Harding\u2019s Tomfoolery (a 1940\u2019s style swing band); the Concert Band; and at times dropping into a brass ensemble. Concert preparation was underway by Week Two, and before Christmas the Orchestra, Big Band and Tomfoolery group each had a concert \u2013 it was demonstrated to me quite how nice it is to perform in a space like the new(ish) concert hall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Illustating the opportuities available to students taking part in University Music, which is open to students in all subjects, he says: &#8220;Coming up before then end of this term is an Orchestral concert in the Cathedral (we\u2019re playing Saint-Saens\u2019 <em>Organ Symphony<\/em> and Durufle\u2019s <em>Requiem<\/em> \u2013 both massive pieces which will be awesome to play in such a\u00a0 venue), a joint Big Band-Concert Band concert in the Colyer-Fergusson hall, and a <em>Tomfoolery<\/em> lunchtime concert \u2013 with dancers! I will also be playing in a chamber orchestra children\u2019s concert of <em>Peter and the Wolf<\/em>; which I rather hope they\u2019ll be resurrecting David Bowie to narrate\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the University&#8217;s Music Department and opportunities available to students, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/music\">www.kent.ac.uk\/music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Easton, a first year student studying Italian in the Department of Modern Languages, is a University Music Performance Scholar, and features in the University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/02\/19\/music-jonny-easton\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12099"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}