{"id":128,"date":"2005-11-04T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/04\/casing-the-joint-at-exeter\/"},"modified":"2015-09-28T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:23:43","slug":"casing-the-joint-at-exeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2005\/11\/04\/casing-the-joint-at-exeter\/","title":{"rendered":"casing the joint at Exeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As two years ago, the Erleigh Cantors&#8217; autumn half-term venue anticipates that of the Cathedral Chamber Choir for the following summer. I had the usual transport problems as at <a href=\"\/vhkssinging\/2003\/10\/27\/casing-the-joint-at-winchester\/\">Winchester<\/a> and <a href=\"\/vhkssinging\/2004\/10\/27\/a-day-trip-from-reading\/\">Lichfield<\/a>, to say nothing of <a href=\"\/vhkssinging\/2004\/11\/03\/some-panoramic-views\/\">Sheffield<\/a>, in past years: this time being forced to start and end my train journey at Westbury.<\/p>\n<p>This event had a very different feel from the usual outings. We were entrusted with the service for the licensing of readers, so it was a lengthy Eucharist in the nave rather than evensong, before a huge congregation. (For this reason I was unable to verify whether Exeter Cathedral still has horribly misleading amplification in the quire).<\/p>\n<p>We sang Kod&aacute;ly&#8217;s <i>Missa Brevis<\/i> which I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"\/vhkssinging\/2004\/06\/21\/an-embarrassing-mistake\/\">elsewhere<\/a>. This time I didn&#8217;t have to worry about the embarrassing mistake as I was singing 2nd soprano. We also sang Palestrina&#8217;s <i>Exultate Deo<\/i> and Villette&#8217;s <i>Hymne &agrave; la Vierge<\/i>, along with other bits and pieces such as a responsorial psalm by the conductor of the Exultate Singers, David Ogden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As two years ago, the Erleigh Cantors&#8217; autumn half-term venue anticipates that of the Cathedral Chamber Choir for the following summer. I had the usual transport problems as at Winchester and Lichfield, to say nothing of Sheffield, in past years: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2005\/11\/04\/casing-the-joint-at-exeter\/\">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":[20],"tags":[128,33,235,479,305,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}