{"id":334716,"date":"2026-03-17T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334716\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:03:08","slug":"new-zealand-symphony-orchestra-musicians-work-with-gisborne-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/334716\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Symphony Orchestra musicians work with Gisborne students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">Using small hand-percussion instruments that he provides, students work \u2018like an orchestra\u2019 to compose a piece based on a theme or story they invent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">Lam Sam and the NZSO players then help shape the students\u2019 ideas into musical material, which gets rehearsed and performed by the class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">The schools can also supplement the NZSO instruments with any instruments the students already play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is a unique, hands-on way for students and teachers to connect with their national orchestra,\u201d an NZSO statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cStudents will learn how musicians collaborate and discover how composers create music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">Lam Sam presented workshops last year to 100 students in four T\u016branganui-a-Kiwa\/Poverty Bay schools. <\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHaving NZSO players involved really lifts the experience for children as they can see and hear real instruments from the orchestra and even direct the players a bit when it comes to creating their musical piece as a class.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using small hand-percussion instruments that he provides, students work \u2018like an orchestra\u2019 to compose a piece based on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37111,33118,29194,54983,12506,157,9381,40940,117,111,43,139,69,10743,29545,6649,3767,10742,1961,1529,686,1533,102,4576,37960,80],"class_list":["post-334716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-acclaimed","tag-creative","tag-educator","tag-entertainer","tag-gisborne","tag-music","tag-musical","tag-musicians","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-orchestra","tag-present","tag-schools","tag-students","tag-symphony","tag-this","tag-three","tag-week","tag-will","tag-with","tag-work","tag-workshops","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}