{"id":15530,"date":"2024-12-02T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2024-12-02T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:38:19","slug":"benjamin-britten-honoured-new-hometown-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/12\/02\/benjamin-britten-honoured-new-hometown-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Britten Honoured With New Hometown Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15531\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Britten-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Britten statue\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Britten-Statue.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Britten-Statue-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Britten-Statue-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Britten-Statue-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mock-up of Benjamin Britten statue (via brittenasaboy.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was announced that a statue of Benjamin Britten will be erected in the composer\u2019s hometown. The announcement follows the completion of a large fundraising initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> Last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brittenasaboy.com\/\">Britten as a Boy<\/a> project announced that it had met its \u00a3120,000 fundraising target. Over the past few years, the project has raised money to erect a bronze statue of Benjamin Britten overlooking the seafront in the composer\u2019s hometown of Lowestoft, Suffolk. The statue is designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ianrank-broadley.co.uk\/\">Ian Rank-Broadle<\/a>y\u2014a sculptor whose effigy of Queen Elizabeth II has appeared on all UK and commonwealth coinage since 1998\u2013and will show Benjamin Britten as a young boy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bit of subtext:<\/strong> The artist Ian Rank-Broadley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpqd0vr74jjo\">expressed<\/a> that Benjamin Britten first showed signs of genius in childhood. Rank-Broadley believes immortalizing the composer as a child will help to inspire the next generation of children to follow their dreams. Organizers of the initiative also explained that Britten wished to be remembered as a composer who served his community. They hope that this statue honours his wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced that a statue of Benjamin Britten will be erected in the composer\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":15531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,193,3],"tags":[490],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/12\/Britten-Statue.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}