{"id":4255,"date":"2012-11-26T21:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T05:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2012-11-26T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T05:57:55","slug":"the-bbc-remembers-graham-collier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/11\/the-bbc-remembers-graham-collier\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC Remembers Graham Collier"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you missed last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BBC concert commemorating the late composer, arranger and bandleader Graham Collier, you can still hear it online. The concert at the BBC studios in London featured the British premiere of The Blue Suite<\/em>, one of Collier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final works. His partner John Gill describes the program as containing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a selection of his and the musicians\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 personal favourties from the Collier canon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The 90-minute broadcast has Collier stalwart Geoff Warren conducting the BBC Radio Big Band with Roger Dean, John Marshall, Ed Speight, Art Themen and a number of former Collier collaborators including Roy Babbinton, Graeme Blevins and Andy Grappy.
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\nBBC Radio 3 will keep the concert online for six more days. To hear it, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a Rifftides<\/em> piece on Collier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s passing in 2011, a few thoughts about his importance and links to further information about him and his work, go here<\/a>. The post contains a 15-minute video of Collier rehearsing a band and talking about his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you missed last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BBC concert commemorating the late composer, arranger and bandleader Graham Collier, you can still hear it online. The concert at the BBC studios in London featured the British premiere of The Blue Suite, one of Collier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final works. His partner John Gill describes the program as containing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a selection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}