{"id":2250,"date":"2021-03-02T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:54:27","slug":"across-to-the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/across-to-the-wild-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Across to the Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Glasgow Schools summer camps in July finished with a concert in the town where the camp took place (or in some cases, like the 1st Orchestra, in a town nearby &#8211; Dunoon) that was repeated in Glasgow during the autumn. This meant that those who had been in their final year at school sometimes missed out on the repeat concert &#8211; having gone on to University or whatever.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That was how I got to play this piece &#8211; drafted in to replace whoever had been principal horn for what was a really good concert (Portsmouth Point, In The South, and the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet alongside this piece) conducted by Meredith Davies.<\/p>\n<p>This is the concert suite &#8211; not the full ballet &#8211; to the best of my memory it was this suite that we played! (it was a long time ago&#8230;..)<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_-iERovy1Ek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Copland : Billy The Kid Suite<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-iERovy1Ek\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glasgow Schools summer camps in July finished with a concert in the town where the camp took place (or in some cases, like the 1st Orchestra, in a town nearby &#8211; Dunoon) that was repeated in Glasgow during the autumn. This meant that those who had been in their final year at school sometimes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/across-to-the-wild-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Across to the Wild West&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[73,100],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-ballet","tag-orchestral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}