{"id":208,"date":"2007-06-05T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/05\/marking-the-end-of-an-era-with-blair\/"},"modified":"2014-09-17T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:21:37","slug":"marking-the-end-of-an-era-with-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/06\/05\/marking-the-end-of-an-era-with-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"marking the end of an era with Blair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Hall has handed over as director of the Cathedral Chamber Choir (which he founded) to Matthew O&#8217;Donovan and the occasion was marked by a special evensong including Blair in B minor (famously on the music list at Westminster Abbey the weekend after the 1997 General Election) and Parry&#8217;s <em>I was glad<\/em>.  This music was chosen by Martin, who I gather is related to Hugh Blair.<\/p>\n<p>The venue was Eton College Chapel.  Architecturally and acoustically it&#8217;s a smaller version of King&#8217;s College Cambridge, with an impressively decorated organ.  I missed a chance to come to the chapel some years ago when the New Cambridge Singers had a day trip there, so it was good to get another opportunity.  And I hadn&#8217;t done the Blair in a long while, possibly because it&#8217;s in lots of parts throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Hall has handed over as director of the Cathedral Chamber Choir (which he founded) to Matthew O&#8217;Donovan and the occasion was marked by a special evensong including Blair in B minor (famously on the music list at Westminster Abbey &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/06\/05\/marking-the-end-of-an-era-with-blair\/\">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":[337,225,671,672,228,673,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}