{"id":12245,"date":"2020-05-08T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/school.chethams.com\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:00:25","slug":"brass-sextet-marks-ve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/blog\/brass-sextet-marks-ve-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Brass sextet marks VE Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WATCH: Chetham&#8217;s students mark VE Day with a special brass sextet performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Pike: VE Day - A Commemoration | Chetham&amp;apos;s Brass Sextet\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ypq43XxLBkc?feature=oembed&showinfo=0&rel=0&autohide=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chetham's brass sextet mark VE Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This piece was originally written by our Head of Composition, Jeremy Pike, to mark the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>It was commissioned by Manchester Cathedral and first performed\u00a0by members of Chetham&#8217;s School of Music 25 years ago\u00a0in a special service of commemoration.<\/p>\n<p>This new performance was given by students of Chetham&#8217;s School of Music to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Owing to the coronavirus pandemic\u00a0performers sent in recordings online from home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>JEREMY PIKE: Chetham&#8217;s Brass Sextet<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>i. 1900 &#8211; 1939. Unresolved Conflict<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>ii. 1939 &#8211; 1945. War<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>iii. 1945 &#8211; . Peace and Promise<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each movement is preceded by a reading:<\/p>\n<p><i>Anthem for Doomed Youth<\/i>\u00a0&#8211; WILFRED OWEN,\u00a0read by Annabel King<\/p>\n<p><i>At the British War Cemetary, Bayeux<\/i>\u00a0&#8211; CHARLES CAUSLEY,\u00a0read by Isobel Coughlan<\/p>\n<p><i>Atlantic Charter (from The Island)<\/i>\u00a0&#8211; FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG, read by Alice Hill<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Performers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christie Smith, Stone Tung, Becky Strentz &#8211; trumpets<\/p>\n<p>Rhydian Tiddy, Amelia Lewis, Joshua Brierley &#8211; trombones<\/p>\n<p>Tom Walgate &#8211; percussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Chetham&#8217;s students mark VE Day with a special brass sextet performance. This piece was originally written by our Head of Composition, Jeremy Pike, to mark the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995. It was commissioned by Manchester Cathedral and first performed\u00a0by members of Chetham&#8217;s School of Music 25 years ago\u00a0in a special service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":7519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}