{"id":3040,"date":"2023-06-07T18:57:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:33:54","slug":"british-double-reed-society-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/british-double-reed-society-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"British Double Reed Society Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was great to take part in the British Double Reed Society&#8217;s Festival at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 17 May. There was an excellent attendance and I enjoyed looking in on the workshops by Melinda Maxwell, Emmet Byrne, Nikolaj Henriques and Margaret Cookhorn. The RBC concert featuring Emmet Byrne&#8217;s  and Nikolaj Hendriques&#8217; brilliant rendition of the Jolivet Sonatine for oboe and bassoon was a real highlight. Also Melinda Maxwell&#8217;s fascinating lecture and demonstration of the aulos&#8230;.taking oboe playing back several thousand years. I also enjoyed interviewing Melinda and Nikolaj in one session and conducting the final playthrough with over sixty double reed players playing Donal Flynn&#8217;s arrangement of Holst&#8217;s <em>Song of the Blacksmith <\/em>from his Second Suite in F, featuring oboist Tommy Hill on anvil! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:9px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to BDRS and James Turnbull and to RBC and Jenni Phillips for leading this incentive. There were many happy participants by the end of the day! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image.png 400w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Melinda Maxwell, oboe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3052\" width=\"406\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-1-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Emmet Byrne, oboe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3056\" width=\"409\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2.png 568w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Nikolaj Henriques, bassoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3062\" width=\"417\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-3-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Margaret Cookhorn, contrabassoon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/4d06d85c-a339-4a4f-bf0d-2dd9f3a85bc0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to take part in the British Double Reed Society&#8217;s Festival at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 17 May. There was an excellent attendance and I enjoyed looking in on the workshops by Melinda Maxwell, Emmet Byrne, Nikolaj Henriques and Margaret Cookhorn. The RBC concert featuring Emmet Byrne&#8217;s and Nikolaj Hendriques&#8217; brilliant rendition of<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><a class=\"more-linkd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/british-double-reed-society-festival\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bdrs","category-oboe-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}