{"id":9586,"date":"2012-10-03T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2012-10-08T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:18:31","slug":"guess-whos-been-to-the-classical-brit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"Guess who&#8217;s been to the Classic BRIT awards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you. DCMS Minister Ed Vaizey, for dropping out of attendance at last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicbrits.co.uk\">Classic BRIT Awards<\/a> ceremony, allowing me to pick up a vacant place. I was a guest of\u00a0the BPI (the British Recorded Music Industry) and we had a great box giving us a pleasant meal before the ceremony and terrific views of the event.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there was not much classical music as such and what there was was short and familiar; the event was more about popular orchestral music which is still very enjoyable. Highlights for me were the London Chamber Orchestra playing a medley of film theme music written by John Williams (the 80 year old received a Lifetime Achievement award) and a rendition of &#8220;Sing&#8221; by the Military Wives conducted by Gareth Malone with Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber (The Wives won the Single of the Year award).<\/p>\n<p>You can see all the winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicbrits.co.uk\/winners\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Generally it was a very professional and impressive show but there were a few sound problems and poor Nicola Bendetti had to repeat her violin performance of the theme from &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List&#8221;. That will be edited for the television broadcast which you can see on ITV1 this Sunday 7 October at 10.15 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you. DCMS Minister Ed Vaizey, for dropping out of attendance at last night&#8217;s Classic BRIT Awards ceremony, allowing me to pick up a vacant place. I was a guest of\u00a0the BPI (the British Recorded Music Industry) and we had a great box giving us a pleasant meal before the ceremony and terrific views of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9640,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}