{"id":1630,"date":"2012-09-11T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T13:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2015-10-03T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T20:04:31","slug":"a-cathedral-organist-in-a-village-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/09\/11\/a-cathedral-organist-in-a-village-church\/","title":{"rendered":"a Cathedral organist in a village church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small village of Rumengol in Finist&egrave;re has no amenities other than a bar and a church.  However it&#8217;s no ordinary church, as twice a year it holds a <i>pardon<\/i> (religious festival with processions).  The Assumptiontide <i>pardon<\/i> co-incided with our stay in the area and part of the festivities was an organ recital by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yvescuenot.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.yvescuenot.com\/', 'Yves Cuenot');\">Yves Cuenot<\/a>, organist of Dijon Cathedral, which I went to.<\/p>\n<p>The recital was a mixture of short pieces, transcriptions for organ, a couple of pieces where the organist accompanied a local singer, and, this being France, some improvisation, all on a Marian theme (rather loosely as it included the hymn to the Evening Star from <i>Tannh&auml;user<\/i>).  The final piece on the programme was a &#8216;Suite pour Rumengol&#8217; by M. Cuenot himself. The audience were invited to join in appropriate plainchant during the improvisations on the <i>Magnificat<\/i> (which I did) and to sing a locally well-known hymn in Breton at the end (which I didn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d guess that Dijon is a mid-ranking Cathedral in the French organ world. So how did its organist come to be playing a rather rheumatic organ in a village church?  I had the impression he was a regular visitor, so perhaps he usually spends his summers in the area. Or was it the prestige of the <i>pardon<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small village of Rumengol in Finist&egrave;re has no amenities other than a bar and a church. However it&#8217;s no ordinary church, as twice a year it holds a pardon (religious festival with processions). The Assumptiontide pardon co-incided with our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2012\/09\/11\/a-cathedral-organist-in-a-village-church\/\">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":[10],"tags":[1040,135,1041],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}