{"id":210,"date":"2007-07-04T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/04\/a-monstrous-crow\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:54:41","slug":"a-monstrous-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/07\/04\/a-monstrous-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"a monstrous crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy week so I will be brief about my most recent outing with the Chandos Singers.  All music new to me, with a mixture of the early (Michna, de las Infantas, Vivaldi and Handel) and the contemporary or nearly so.  We sang three pieces by Eric Whitacre, including <em>i thank You God for most this amazing day<\/em> which I see is about to come round on a Choral Evensong broadcast.  (However, the <em>Radio Times<\/em> has failed to understand e.e.cummings&#8217; orthography, which reserves capital letters strictly for the deity).  Also a bilingual setting of the <em>Miserere<\/em> by Michael Nyman, which originally accompanied some capers directed by Peter Greenaway.  Like a lot of Nyman&#8217;s music, this was rather relentless, which made it hard to sing, but certainly worth doing.  The concert ended with a setting of (adapted) Lewis Carroll by one C.N. Lewis, which I won&#8217;t attempt to describe; you really had to be there.<br \/>\nMeanwhile I sang part of Tallis&#8217; <em>Mass in four parts<\/em> for the first time at a special service at church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a busy week so I will be brief about my most recent outing with the Chandos Singers. All music new to me, with a mixture of the early (Michna, de las Infantas, Vivaldi and Handel) and the contemporary &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/07\/04\/a-monstrous-crow\/\">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":[21],"tags":[219,644,723,722,114,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}