{"id":11,"date":"2007-03-24T04:31:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.171270.com\/2007\/04\/08\/classical-spectacular\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:08:14","slug":"classical-spectacular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/classical-spectacular\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Spectacular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nm-classicalspectacular-m1.jpg\" title=\"nm-classicalspectacular-m1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/nm-classicalspectacular-m1.jpg\" alt=\"nm-classicalspectacular-m1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I went to see my first major concert since I moved to London. It was actually pure luck that I even became aware of it. While walking around London, I saw posters for an event at the Royal Albert Hall called &quot;Classical Spectacular&quot;. Well, once I was home, and read more about it on the web,&nbsp;I decided to buy tickets for the Friday evening show. And I did not regret it. It was really spectacular. Nice selection of famous classical songs, combined with a rather nice light show, and all of it in the really spectacular Royal Albert Hall. I certainly enjoyed it, although I have to say that I was feeling a bit weird when the whole of the Royal Albert Hall was singing &quot;Land of Hope and Glory&quot; and &quot;Rule Britannia&quot; while waving flags. Rather unusual. Clearly showed that there were mainly local people in the audience and not too many tourists.  A good start into what should be only the first of many events in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to see my first major concert since I moved to London. It was actually pure luck that I even became aware of it. While walking around London, I saw posters for an event at the Royal Albert Hall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/classical-spectacular\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikehellers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}