{"id":148,"date":"2006-03-29T13:50:34","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/29\/two-new-languages\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T12:25:05","slug":"two-new-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/03\/29\/two-new-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"two new languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rehearsals have now started for the Bath Camerata Good Friday concert in Wells Cathedral. The two main pieces I am singing in are Bernstein&#8217;s <i>Chichester Psalms<\/i> and <i>Otce Nas<\/i> by Janacek. From my point of view, these have a certain amount in common; first, both have a harp accompaniment. Secondly, I haven&#8217;t sung either before, and thirdly, I haven&#8217;t in fact performed anything in the language of either (Hebrew and Czech, respectively) before!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that Czech trips that easily off my tongue but on a first rehearsal I coped rather better with it than with the Hebrew. (I studied the music beforehand but without the words, so that I wouldn&#8217;t get pronunciations that were way off fixed in my head). Perhaps because I can relate the words to the meaning rather more easily. I spend odd moments in rehearsal trying to work out which words of the Hebrew text mean what, as much as I can. And I&#8217;ve heard more performances of the Janacek and have a recording, so I don&#8217;t have to concentrate quite so hard on unfamiliar notes. Also, Bernstein sets a longer text and there&#8217;s less repetition of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehearsals have now started for the Bath Camerata Good Friday concert in Wells Cathedral. The two main pieces I am singing in are Bernstein&#8217;s Chichester Psalms and Otce Nas by Janacek. From my point of view, these have a certain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2006\/03\/29\/two-new-languages\/\">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":[18],"tags":[195,835,90,615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"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=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}