{"id":3590,"date":"2026-03-12T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:45:37","slug":"radcliffe-orchestra-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/radcliffe-orchestra-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Radcliffe Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am looking forward to my upcoming concert with Oxford&#8217;s Radcliffe Orchestra which will take place on Saturday, 14 March at 7.30pm in St Andrew&#8217;s Church, Linton Road, Oxford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme starts with George Butterworth&#8217;s Rhapsody, <em>A Shropshire Lad, <\/em>first performed in Leeds by the London Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch in October 1913 and only three years before the composer&#8217;s death at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunil Manohar returns to the orchestra after his memorable performance of Rachmaninov&#8217;s Third Piano Concerto last year, to perform the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F, first performed in 1925 in Carnegie Hall. The concert will conclude with the Symphonic Dances of Rachmaninov, a real showcase for every section of the orchestra first performed by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in January 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As in previous years,  the concert is given in aid of charity and this year we will be raising funds for <em>Restore<\/em>, working for mental health across Oxford and in conjunction with North Oxford Rotary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please come and join us! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3593\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>George Gershwin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am looking forward to my upcoming concert with Oxford&#8217;s Radcliffe Orchestra which will take place on Saturday, 14 March at 7.30pm in St Andrew&#8217;s Church, Linton Road, Oxford. The programme starts with George Butterworth&#8217;s Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad, first performed in Leeds by the London Symphony Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch in October 1913 and<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><a class=\"more-linkd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/radcliffe-orchestra-3\/\">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":[55,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oxford","category-radcliffe-orchestra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590"}],"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=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}