{"id":5700,"date":"2023-02-20T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:40:39","slug":"balourdet-quartet-plays-strange-machines-in-uk-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=5700","title":{"rendered":"Balourdet Quartet plays <i>Strange Machines<\/i> in UK Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balourdetquartet.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balourdet Quartet<\/a> embarked on their first UK tour, including a debut performance at Wigmore Hall. Their programs feature <a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=5562\"><i>Strange Machines<\/i><\/a>, a new work written for them, and commissioned with the assistance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrad.com\/news\/top-us-string-quartets-receive-commissioning-grants-from-chamber-music-america\/13498.article\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chamber Music America<\/a>. The tour included an appearance on BBC 3 Radio 3&#8217;s <i>In Tune<\/i>, where they played the second movement of the work, &#8220;Goldberg Machine.&#8221; Listen to the performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m001hpfd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (starts at 1:36:32). The Balourdet will perform the piece in the US in upcoming concerts beginning with the New York City premiere on April 4 at the Kaufman Music Center&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org\/mch\/event\/music-speaks-balourdet-quartet\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merkin Hall<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February the Balourdet Quartet embarked on their first UK tour, including a debut performance at Wigmore Hall. Their programs feature Strange Machines, a new work written for them, and commissioned with the assistance of Chamber Music America. The tour included an appearance on BBC 3 Radio 3&#8217;s In Tune, where they played the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5722,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/5722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}