{"id":1459,"date":"2012-02-27T23:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T09:44:21","slug":"eric-roseberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/02\/27\/eric-roseberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Roseberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorry to hear today that Eric Roseberry had died after a very short illness.  I sang for him only once, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2005\/12\/02\/whats-the-choir-called\/\">Marshfield Bach Singers Christmas concert<\/a>.  He had a deceptively mild and scholarly manner, and nevertheless coaxed good performances out of us.  I think I made a favourable impression, but my name never got on to the mailing list of singers and although friends occasionally invited me to sing with them again, it never happened, which I now regret.<\/p>\n<p>Eric was a survivor from a gentler and less technology-ridden age.  My dealings with him were in 2005 and I think he was the last choirmaster I&#8217;ve encountered who didn&#8217;t use email (I&#8217;m not sure about John Marsh at the Lord Mayor&#8217;s Chapel) &#8211; I had to ring him up and give my details, and maybe that was why I never got onto the choir register.  (I do still know one or two people in the choir world who think an email is an empty text message with a Word document attached.  I know who they are because I&#8217;ve had to whitelist them, otherwise their messages get classified as spam.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorry to hear today that Eric Roseberry had died after a very short illness. I sang for him only once, in a Marshfield Bach Singers Christmas concert. He had a deceptively mild and scholarly manner, and nevertheless coaxed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/02\/27\/eric-roseberry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1073,1016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}