{"id":13863,"date":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abingdon.prod.twkmedia.eu\/prep\/2018\/01\/23\/performers-wowed-the-crowd\/"},"modified":"2019-10-30T12:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:09:24","slug":"performers-wowed-the-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdon.org.uk\/prep\/performers-wowed-the-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Performers wowed the crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"
Friday afternoon saw the first APS Concert Platform of 2018 with sixteen performers from Years 3-8 taking part. Ten of the items were piano pieces spanning a wide level of difficulty from Pop Goes the Weasel<\/em> to the Polonaise in A major<\/em> by Chopin. The audience was treated to two uplifting jazz saxophone items, a beautiful French horn solo, and a melancholy cantabile 'cello piece. Oxfordshire's answer to Ed Sheeran was provided by Scott who sang Riptide<\/em> to his own guitar accompaniment, and Josef in Year 8 played his own composition on the piano accordion which he had received for Christmas, inviting the audience to come up with a name for the piece! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 23 January 2018 Friday afternoon saw the first APS Concert Platform of 2018 with sixteen performers from Years 3-8 taking part. Ten…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-news","category-news-categories","category-performing-arts-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n