{"id":1280,"date":"2025-08-20T14:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/?page_id=1280"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T10:01:10","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Dorset County Orchestra<\/strong> has been delighting audiences for more than half a century, having been formed as long ago as 1951 at the instigation of the then County Music Organiser, Joan Brocklebank. The first conductor was the young Lawrence Leonard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The members of the orchestra are semi-professional and amateur musicians from all over Dorset., with <a href=\"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/about\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8\"><strong>Musical leadership<\/strong><\/a> from conductor Arturo Serna and leader B\u00e4rbel Glaser<strong>. <\/strong>They perform a wide selection from the classical repertoire. See <a href=\"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/programmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Past Programmes<\/strong><\/a> page for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dorset County Orchestra has been delighting audiences for more than half a century, having been formed as long ago as 1951 at the instigation of the then County Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1280\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dorsetcountyorchestra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}