{"id":12898,"date":"2014-12-04T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2014-12-04T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T23:02:45","slug":"12898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=12898","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Music Centre Christmas Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14120303.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nSt Helen&#8217;s Church was full for the Abingdon Music Centre Christmas Concert &#8211; an annual event where groups from the Abingdon Music Centre, perform for each other and for family and friends.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14120301.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nThe concert started with the Community Orchestra. They played some Beatles songs, then Bruch&#8217;s Violin Concerto no 1: 2nd movement.<\/p>\n<p>Before they could start a butterfly landed on the music of Helen Eccleston, the conductor. Once blown off, the orchestra watched it fluttering off round the church.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14120302.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Lights\" \/><br \/>\nBethan Rose was the soloist of the concerto &#8211; a piece she played when winning the Francis Kitching Trophy for 2014, a trophy in memory of a well known local music teacher who wanted to encourage students to continue music after school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Helen&#8217;s Church was full for the Abingdon Music Centre Christmas Concert &#8211; an annual event where groups from the Abingdon Music Centre, perform for each other and for family and friends. The concert started with the Community Orchestra. They played some Beatles songs, then Bruch&#8217;s Violin Concerto no 1: 2nd movement. Before they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}