{"id":200,"date":"2007-04-22T21:52:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/22\/a-top-c\/"},"modified":"2014-09-01T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T21:27:47","slug":"a-top-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/04\/22\/a-top-c\/","title":{"rendered":"a top C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t been asked to do one of these in performance for a while (the last time I think was when I sang in the chorus in Mahler 8).  But there was one at the end of a specially-written descant at the Easter Vigil Mass.  The setting was Mozart&#8217;s Missa Brevis in G (with strings).  As an anthem we sang Mozart&#8217;s <em>Regina C\u0153li<\/em>.  This must have been written under the influence of the <em>Messiah<\/em>, to judge by the treatment of the Alleluias.  One thing in common with the previous day&#8217;s Rossini: a female tenor soloist.<\/p>\n<p>So concluded what must be the most memorable (musically) Holy Week\/Easter I&#8217;ve had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t been asked to do one of these in performance for a while (the last time I think was when I sang in the chorus in Mahler 8). But there was one at the end of a specially-written descant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/04\/22\/a-top-c\/\">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":[459,165,458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}