{"id":10,"date":"2003-08-29T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2003\/08\/29\/proms-concert\/"},"modified":"2014-09-27T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:30:09","slug":"proms-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2003\/08\/29\/proms-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Proms concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got away to London on Wednesday and went to the Proms concert with Mark Wigglesworth and the London Philharmonic. This included Berg&#8217;s <i>Seven Early Songs<\/i>sung by Christine Brewer (the first professional performance I&#8217;ve heard live since I learnt some of the songs five years ago), also Brahms&#8217; first symphony and excerpts from <i>Tannh&auml;user<\/i>.  I enjoyed it despite some rather dodgy woodwind moments &#8211; also the <i>Seven Early Songs<\/i> are lightly scored and got a bit lost in the Albert Hall.<br \/>\nI would have enjoyed it even more if I hadn&#8217;t had to frantically rush around for a taxi (the one I ordered didn&#8217;t turn up) afterwards in order to get the 21.33 train home. The later trains were replaced by buses because of engineering on the line and had I missed the 21.33 I would not have returned home till 1.30 a.m. There have been dozens of these &#8217;emergency&#8217; works on the line since I moved to Bath seven years ago and I estimate that they have affected about half of my attempts to have a midweek night out in London during that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got away to London on Wednesday and went to the Proms concert with Mark Wigglesworth and the London Philharmonic. This included Berg&#8217;s Seven Early Songssung by Christine Brewer (the first professional performance I&#8217;ve heard live since I learnt some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2003\/08\/29\/proms-concert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[132,142,138,687,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}