{"id":301,"date":"2016-03-12T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulfeatherstone.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:03:14","slug":"epoc-opera-blocks-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"EPOC Opera Blocks Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just completed a 5 week workshop tour of United Learning schools all over England from Bournemouth to Carlisle &#8211; introducing pupils to the world of opera, getting them to participate in a mini version of &#8220;Carmen&#8221; and improvising an opera based on their suggestions. Soprano Pamela Hay was my stunning partner and thanks to all our wonderful pianists: Magnus Gilljam, Will Carslake, Ezra Williams and Mark Tinkler himself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulfeatherstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulfeatherstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2338-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Opera Blocks in Barnsley with Pamela Hay at the wheel &amp; Ezra Williams at the keys.\" class=\"wp-image-302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2338-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2338-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Opera Blocks in Barnsley with Pamela Hay at the wheel &amp; Ezra Williams at the keys. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Photo: info@arronjonesmagic.co.uk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just completed a 5 week workshop tour of United Learning schools all over England from Bournemouth to Carlisle &#8211; introducing pupils to the world of opera, getting them to participate in a mini version of &#8220;Carmen&#8221; and improvising an opera based on their suggestions. Soprano Pamela Hay was my stunning partner and thanks to all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulfeatherstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}