{"id":2503,"date":"2010-11-26T18:55:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T17:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2010-11-26T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T17:55:29","slug":"ulster-orchestra-searches-for-the-%e2%80%98golden-couple%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/11\/ulster-orchestra-searches-for-the-%e2%80%98golden-couple%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulster Orchestra searches for the \u2018Golden Couple\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ulster-orchestra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2504 alignleft\" title=\"ulster orchestra\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ulster-orchestra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>One of the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s most popular concerts \u2013 Handel\u2019s <em>Messiah<\/em> \u2013 takes place this year in the Belfast Waterfront on the 10 and 11 December, but this year it takes on a different twist, as the Ulster Orchestra searches for a couple whose very first date, over 50 years ago, was Handel\u2019s<em> Messiah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the full orchestra and Belfast Philharmonic Choir, <em>Messiah<\/em> is always a wonderful part of the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s season and one that has been part of our Christmas repertoire since our foundation,\u201d Lydia Gamble, the Orchestra\u2019s Head of Marketing and Development said. \u201cBut this year we are looking for a couple whose first date was to a performance of Handel\u2019s great oratorio over half a century ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained that at the Orchestra\u2019s performance of <em>Faur\u00e9\u2019s Requiem<\/em> on 12 November one of the performers was talking to a couple who said that their first date had been a performance of <em>Messiah<\/em> and they had just celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are coming to the concert next month we would love them to get in touch beforehand,\u201d Lydia Gamble said, \u201cIf they aren\u2019t we would still like them to get in touch by emailing <a href=\"mailto:info@ulsterorchestra.com\">info@ulsterorchestra.com<\/a> or calling 028 9026 0473.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s most popular concerts \u2013 Handel\u2019s Messiah \u2013 takes place this year in the Belfast Waterfront on the 10 and 11 December, but this year it takes on a different twist, as the Ulster Orchestra searches for a couple whose very first date, over 50 years ago, was Handel\u2019s Messiah. \u201cWith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/11\/ulster-orchestra-searches-for-the-%e2%80%98golden-couple%e2%80%99\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1263,400,541,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}