{"id":204,"date":"2007-05-11T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/11\/an-alternative-to-singing\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T00:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:16:58","slug":"an-alternative-to-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/05\/11\/an-alternative-to-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"an alternative to singing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently told that there&#8217;s a surplus of singers in Bristol at the moment and so all the choirs have waiting lists.  I couldn&#8217;t help reflecting, firstly, on how things change over time.  Not very long ago there were too many choirs in Bristol for the pool of singers available; this, I think, was what made the Brandon Hill Singers go under.  Secondly, I wish good luck to the people on the waiting lists!  I have been on several in my time: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/03\/02\/the-missing-chamber-choirs-of-manchester\/\">two choirs in Manchester<\/a>, and round here the Paragon Singers and the Bristol Bach Choir (I&#8217;d enjoyed singing for Peter Leech so gave them a try, but they never contacted me when the season for auditions came round).  In none of these cases did the wait lead to an audition and in at least one case I suspect the &#8216;waiting list&#8217; to have been a total fiction rather than just carelessly maintained or scrapped after a certain length of time.  It is a miserable alternative to singing.<\/p>\n<p>[February 2015: A member of the Bristol Bach Choir told me that prospective members used sometimes to have to wait years for an audition, but now they get auditioned quickly.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently told that there&#8217;s a surplus of singers in Bristol at the moment and so all the choirs have waiting lists. I couldn&#8217;t help reflecting, firstly, on how things change over time. Not very long ago there were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/05\/11\/an-alternative-to-singing\/\">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":[8],"tags":[58,485,351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3209,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}