{"id":2907,"date":"2011-05-11T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2011-05-11T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:54:58","slug":"an-american-affair-with-the-ulster-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/05\/an-american-affair-with-the-ulster-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"An American affair with the Ulster Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2908\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ORCHESTRA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2908\" title=\"ORCHESTRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ORCHESTRA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"501\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dima Slobodeniouk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barely a week after announcing the appointment of the leading American conductor, JoAnn Falletta, as its new Principal Conductor, the Ulster Orchestra is preparing to end its 2010\/11 Season with an American-flavoured concert in the Belfast Waterfront on Friday 20 May.<\/p>\n<p>The grand finale of the Orchestra\u2019s Season features Peter Donohoe playing that favourite of popular classics \u2013 Gershwin\u2019s Piano Concerto \u2013 a jazz-inspired take on the classical concerto.<\/p>\n<p>Also featuring is Copland\u2019s ever-popular <em>Rodeo<\/em> and Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Concerto for Orchestra, one of the composers best-loved and exciting works written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Lydia Gamble, the Ulster Orchestra\u2019s Head of Marketing and Development said: \u201cThe closing concert, conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, promises to be a superb finish to a wonderful Season and is the \u2018last-chance-saloon\u2019 to hear the Orchestra before its summer break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she added: \u201cFear not! We unveiled our forthcoming Season 2011\/12 at a launch in the Ulster Hall on Monday 9 May and there is plenty to look forward to when concerts resume in September, providing a platform for some of the finest international conductors and soloists to bring our audiences some fabulous music\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Orchestra\u2019s new brochure is available from its Box Office or can be downloaded from the homepage of its website \u2013 www.ulsterorchestra.com<\/p>\n<p>And so audiences don\u2019t have to go completely \u2018cold turkey\u2019, there\u2019s one more lunchtime concert of the current Season \u2013 at 1.05pm on Wednesday 8 June in the Ulster Hall. And of course not forgetting the BBC\u2019s Summer Invitation Concert series with the Orchestra which culminates in <em>Proms in the Park<\/em> on Saturday 10 September.<\/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>Barely a week after announcing the appointment of the leading American conductor, JoAnn Falletta, as its new Principal Conductor, the Ulster Orchestra is preparing to end its 2010\/11 Season with an American-flavoured concert in the Belfast Waterfront on Friday 20 May. The grand finale of the Orchestra\u2019s Season features Peter Donohoe playing that favourite of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2011\/05\/an-american-affair-with-the-ulster-orchestra\/\">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":[1448,1444,1414,1449,1446,1442,1445,1447,240,400,1443,541,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907"}],"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=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}