{"id":1167,"date":"2014-06-18T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2014-06-18T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T04:24:13","slug":"the-kings-singers-bring-their-great-american-songbook-tour-to-sydney-for-one-night-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/06\/18\/the-kings-singers-bring-their-great-american-songbook-tour-to-sydney-for-one-night-only\/","title":{"rendered":"The King's Singers bring their Great American Songbook tour to Sydney for one night only"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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The beloved Grammy Award-winning a cappella vocal ensemble offers up sunny, sophisticated arrangements of their favourite tunes by Rodgers & Hart,<\/strong> Cole Porter<\/strong>, Irving Berlin<\/strong> and many others in Great American Songbook<\/em>.Enjoy an evening of familiar tunes as The King’s Singers<\/a> pay tribute to some of the most enduring and influential American popular songs of the 20th century.
\nThe King’s Singers with renowned jazz composer and arranger Alexander L’Estrange<\/a>, have created brand new a cappela arrangements of each song, bringing the groups own unique performance style to some of the most beloved hits from the golden era of song-writing.<\/p>\n

From their witty take on Let’s Misbehave<\/em> and The Lady is a Tramp<\/a><\/em> (the latter even updated with references to Twitter and The Ashes!), to the sensual harmonies of My Funny Valentine<\/em> and Cry Me A River,<\/em> the ensemble bring their own consummate vocal talents and trademark British humor to these golden era songs from Broadway musicals, Hollywood films and the American theatre stage.<\/p>\n

Recipients of two Grammy Awards, the Midem International Classical Award and recent inductees into the Gramophone Hall of Fame, this is sure to be an unforgettable evening!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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25 June 2014, 7.30pm
\nCity Recital Hall
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\nby phone<\/strong> (02) 8256 2222
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The beloved Grammy Award-winning a cappella vocal ensemble offers up sunny, sophisticated arrangements of their favourite tunes by Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many others in Great American Songbook.Enjoy an evening of familiar tunes as The King’s Singers pay tribute to some of the most enduring and influential American popular songs of … Continue reading “The King's Singers bring their Great American Songbook tour to Sydney for one night only”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classicalfm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}