{"id":8060,"date":"2017-06-30T08:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2017-06-30T08:55:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T12:55:32","slug":"cambridge-orchestra-to-premiere-pink-floyd-inspired-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2017\/06\/cambridge-orchestra-to-premiere-pink-floyd-inspired-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge orchestra to premiere Pink Floyd-inspired piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Cambridge Concert Orchestra<\/strong> will premiere a composition by <strong>Tim Brooks<\/strong> (pictured) called &#8220;Grantchester Variations,&#8221; an homage to <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong> and the band he helped found and inspired by <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Grantchester Meadows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The piece &#8220;will certainly intrigue Pink Floyd fans and lovers of modern orchestral music,&#8221; according to orchestra chairman <strong>Jan Mentha<\/strong>. &#8220;The harmonies and rhythms evoke the early exploratory Floyd works. So far as the orchestra knows, this the only orchestral &#8216;tribute&#8217; to the iconic band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra will perform the piece as part of its 50th anniversary concert Saturday, July 8 at West Road Concert Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks, of Cambridge, studied music at York University and gained a teaching qualification in music and drama from Leeds University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cambridgeconcertorchestra.org\/\">More information is available at the orchestra&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cambridge Concert Orchestra will premiere a composition by Tim Brooks (pictured) called &#8220;Grantchester Variations,&#8221; an homage to Syd Barrett and the band he helped found and inspired by Pink Floyd&#8216;s &#8220;Grantchester Meadows.&#8221; The piece &#8220;will certainly intrigue Pink Floyd fans and lovers of modern orchestral music,&#8221; according to orchestra chairman Jan Mentha. &#8220;The harmonies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-personnel","category-syd-barrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8062,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8060\/revisions\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}