{"id":209,"date":"2007-06-09T23:57:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T23:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/09\/a-coincidence-involving-messiaen\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T10:35:38","slug":"a-coincidence-involving-messiaen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/06\/09\/a-coincidence-involving-messiaen\/","title":{"rendered":"a coincidence involving Messiaen"},"content":{"rendered":"

My final concert in the Bath Festival was Joanna MacGregor playing Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant J\u00e9sus<\/em>. It’s a long time since I’ve been at a concert where most of the audience were on their feet at the end. But it was easy to tell why; I don’t think I heard any fluffed notes and the complex rhythms (many Eastern in inspiration) all seemed to me (as far as I could tell) to be precisely articulated. To say nothing of her control of dynamics and phrasing. There was no interval, only a short pause in the middle. I doubt whether Christ Church Julian Road had ever witnessed anything like this before!<\/p>\n

Afterwards we all dispersed to tell our friends and families what they’d missed. (It’s possible to find out, as the concert is being broadcast on Radio 3). As I walked back home with Messiaen’s music ringing in my ears, I got a text message, the way one does, inviting me to sing some of his music in Turin later this month. Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My final concert in the Bath Festival was Joanna MacGregor playing Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant J\u00e9sus. It’s a long time since I’ve been at a concert where most of the audience were on their feet at the end. But … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[32,71,934,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}