{"id":42703,"date":"2015-09-13T23:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T23:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42703"},"modified":"2015-09-13T23:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T23:56:03","slug":"first-black-and-minority-ethnic-orchestra-to-make-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42703","title":{"rendered":"First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-34229249\" target=\"_blank\">First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lizo Mzimba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe&#8217;s first professional orchestra consisting entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians will make its debut this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chi-chinwanoku.com\/chineke-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Chineke orchestra<\/a> has been created to promote diversity in a musical world that is predominantly white.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizo_mzimba\" target=\"_blank\">Lizo Mzimba<\/a> reports from one of its final rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-34229249\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First black and minority ethnic orchestra to make debut BBC News 2015-09-11 Lizo Mzimba Europe&#8217;s first professional orchestra consisting entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians will make its debut this weekend at the Southbank Centre in London. The Chineke orchestra has been created to promote diversity in a musical world that is predominantly white. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,10,842],"tags":[8597,20919,20917,21052,1392,21051],"class_list":["post-42703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","tag-bbc-news","tag-chi-chi-nwanoku","tag-chineke-orchestra","tag-lizo-mzimba","tag-music","tag-the-chineke-orchestra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42705,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703\/revisions\/42705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}