{"id":30066,"date":"2023-09-18T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/performances\/prokofiev-romeo-and-juliet"},"modified":"2023-09-19T19:57:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:57:24","slug":"prokofiev-romeo-and-juliet","status":"publish","type":"performances","link":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/performances\/prokofiev-romeo-and-juliet","title":{"rendered":"Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love, desire, ambition, optimism, rebellion, angst and tragedy \u2013 the desperate frustrations, euphoric joys and limitless dreams of youth are all here in this concert brought to you by the world\u2019s greatest orchestra of teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30276,"template":"","events_types":[],"acf":{"body_text":"Love, desire, ambition, optimism, rebellion, angst and tragedy \u2013 the desperate frustrations, euphoric joys and limitless dreams of youth are all here in this concert brought to you by the world\u2019s greatest orchestra of teenagers.\r\n\r\nRomeo and Juliet is a story of love and two young people who dared to dream that things could be different. Prokofiev\u2019s ballet score is packed with more great tunes than a Spotify playlist, allowing our extraordinary musicians to display their awesome might in the grand Montagues and Capulets theme and their thoughtful sensitivity in the delicate dances and lyrical laments.\r\n\r\nUnashamedly dramatic and filled with extravagant gestures, Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto is the kind of music you put on repeat when you want to rage at the world or mend a broken heart. The soloist is Nicola Benedetti who effortlessly combines the breath-taking playing of a genuine superstar with being a down-to-Earth role-model for a generation of ambitious teenage violinists.\r\n\r\nAnd finally, a cautionary tale for teenage boundary-pushers everywhere. Lera Auerbach\u2019s eerie tone poem is fifteen minutes of almost unbearable, watch-through-your-fingers tension as Icarus soars towards the sun and his inevitable death. But our determined and ambitious teenagers allow us to experience these stories and come through the other side, changed and uplifted by the experience we\u2019ve shared together through music.\r\n\r\nTotally teenage orchestral brilliance. Come and hear it.","shape_text":"<b>Prokofiev<\/b>\u00a0<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>\r\n<strong>Tchaikovsky<\/strong>\u00a0Violin Concerto\r\n<strong>Lera Auerbach<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Icarus<\/em>\r\n\r\n<strong>National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain\r\nMark Wigglesworth<\/strong>\u00a0conductor\r\n<strong>Nicola Benedetti<\/strong>\u00a0violin","campaign":"","datetime_start":"2019-07-27 19:30:00","datetime_end":"2019-07-27 19:30:00","date_rewrite":"","location":"england-midlands","venue":"Victoria Hall, Stoke-on-Trent","price":"","free_for_teens":false,"rewrite_cta_label":"","rewrite_cta_url":"","link_to_tickets":"","hide_cta":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/performances\/30066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/performances"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/performances"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/performances\/30066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30285,"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/performances\/30066\/revisions\/30285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"events_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.nyo.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events_types?post=30066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}