{"id":43061,"date":"2015-10-04T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43061"},"modified":"2015-10-04T23:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:51:18","slug":"new-to-youtube-chineke-europes-first-black-orchestra-concert-debut-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43061","title":{"rendered":"NEW TO YOUTUBE | Chineke! \u2013 Europe\u2019s First Black Orchestra Concert Debut [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theviolinchannel.com\/chineke-orchestra-debut-black-ethnic-minority-southbank-london-chichi-nwanoku\/\" target=\"_blank\">NEW TO YOUTUBE | Chineke! \u2013 Europe\u2019s First Black Orchestra Concert Debut [VIDEO]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theviolinchannel.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Violin Channel<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-15<\/p>\n<p>Debut concert performance of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chineke.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chineke! Orchestra<\/a><\/em> \u2013 Europe\u2019s first professional orchestra made up entirely of musicians of colour.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-piece ensemble, founded by British double bassist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chi-chinwanoku.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chichi Nwanoku<\/a>, was established with the objective of making a conscious effort to redress the racial balance in classical music.<\/p>\n<p>Programme includes: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symphony_No._7_(Beethoven)\" target=\"_blank\">Beethoven\u2019s 7th Symphony<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Brahms\" target=\"_blank\">Brahms<\/a> \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Variations_on_a_Theme_by_Haydn\" target=\"_blank\">Variations on a theme by Haydn<\/a>\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Coleridge-Taylor\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Coleridge-Taylor\u2019s<\/a> \u2018Ballade for Orchestra\u2019 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipherbert.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Herbert\u2019s<\/a> \u2018Elegy\u2019 [a memorial to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenlawrence.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Lawrence<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Recorded live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London\u2019s Southbank Centre<\/a>, 13th September 2015 \u2013 as part of the \u2018Africa Utopia Festival\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2uOCnBWFrY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW TO YOUTUBE | Chineke! \u2013 Europe\u2019s First Black Orchestra Concert Debut [VIDEO] The Violin Channel 2015-09-15 Debut concert performance of the Chineke! Orchestra \u2013 Europe\u2019s first professional orchestra made up entirely of musicians of colour. The 60-piece ensemble, founded by British double bassist Chichi Nwanoku, was established with the objective of making a conscious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10,842],"tags":[20919,20917,1392,21270,21271],"class_list":["post-43061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","tag-chi-chi-nwanoku","tag-chineke-orchestra","tag-music","tag-the-violin-channel","tag-violin-channel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061","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=43061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43064,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43061\/revisions\/43064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}