{"id":400047,"date":"2011-04-26T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/26\/posthumous-prize-for-john-barry\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:35:15","slug":"posthumous-prize-for-john-barry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/posthumous-prize-for-john-barry\/","title":{"rendered":"Posthumous prize for John Barry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"47.1844660194\"><span><span>26 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>11:35 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Classic Brit Awards will honour James Bond composer John Barry next month, following his death in January.<\/p>\n<p>His widow Laurie Barry said: &#8220;John would be so honoured to be receiving the outstanding contribution to music award&#8230; we are very grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barry wrote scores for more than 100 films including 11 Bond movies, Born Free and Midnight Cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Shirley Bassey will perform the track Goldfinger at the ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>Several of Barry&#8217;s best-known themes will be performed by the London Chamber Orchestra at the awards.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time that a posthumous pize has been awarded at the event since its inception in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Albert Hall will also be host to a John Barry memorial concert in June, featuring performances from Bassey and Rumer, and tributes from Sir George Martin and Sir Michael Caine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/entertainment-arts-13201093\" title=\"Posthumous prize for John Barry\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Posthumous prize for John Barry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 26 April 2011 Last updated at 11:35 ET The Classic Brit Awards will honour James Bond composer John Barry next month, following his death in January. His widow Laurie Barry said: &#8220;John would be so honoured to be receiving the outstanding contribution to music award&#8230; we are very grateful.&#8221; Barry wrote scores for more than 100 films including 11 Bond movies, Born Free and Midnight Cowboy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Posthumous prize for John Barry - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/26\/posthumous-prize-for-john-barry\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Posthumous prize for John Barry - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"26 April 2011 Last updated at 11:35 ET The Classic Brit Awards will honour James Bond composer John Barry next month, following his death in January. 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