{"id":5750,"date":"2021-03-26T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2021-07-26T22:46:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T22:46:03","slug":"the-bath-festival-orchestra-revives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/03\/26\/the-bath-festival-orchestra-revives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bath Festival Orchestra revives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against all probability the scaled-down Bath Festival 2021 will feature for the first time in many years (I&#8217;d guess 40 years at least) an ensemble called the <a href=\"https:\/\/bathfestivalorchestra.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/bathfestivalorchestra.com\/', 'Bath Festival Orchestra');\">Bath Festival Orchestra<\/a>.  This has been refounded with a new remit for the 21st century and performed for the first time at the end of 2020.  I somehow doubt that the organisers of the Festival instigated this development, but perhaps it might reverse the trend in recent years for classical music to be sidelined at the Festival.  I am all for their going out and looking for new audiences for this repertoire; see some of my complaints that no effort was being made to bring in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/03\/08\/an-open-letter-to-alasdair-nicolson-future-artistic-director-of-the-bath-festival\/\">young concert-goers<\/a> to Festival events.<\/p>\n<p>Dare I mention it?  Perhaps the next stage might be to revive the Bath Festival Chorus too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against all probability the scaled-down Bath Festival 2021 will feature for the first time in many years (I&#8217;d guess 40 years at least) an ensemble called the Bath Festival Orchestra. This has been refounded with a new remit for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/03\/26\/the-bath-festival-orchestra-revives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[346,1453,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}