{"id":2197,"date":"2014-03-05T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T18:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2015-07-29T22:17:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T22:17:44","slug":"the-great-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/03\/05\/the-great-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The children&#8217;s school is putting on one of its occasional concerts in which they invite parents and others associated with the school to boost the school choirs in a concert. I sang in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/12\/12\/the-armed-man-for-remembrance\/\">last of these<\/a>; unfortunately I will be away for the next one, but I&#8217;ve been going to rehearsals anyway for fun and socialising.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is a selection of well-known classical choruses.  So for example a chunk of the <i>Polovstian Dances<\/i> comes round again (this time in English), and we warm up to <i>Va Pensiero<\/i> (this time in Italian).  The only new music for me was Orff&#8217;s <i>O Fortuna<\/i>, which fortunately I&#8217;ve avoided until now, and almost avoided this time as I&#8217;ve only had to rehearse it once.  That old May Week standby, <i>Zadok the Priest<\/i>, has taken up a fair amount of rehearsal time.  On a more reflective note are the <i>In Paradisum<\/i> from Faur&eacute;&#8217;s Requiem and the <i>Lacrymosa<\/i> from Mozart&#8217;s.  I can&#8217;t be the only person who can&#8217;t sing the latter without thinking of the final scene from <i>Amadeus<\/i>.  Those two final chords are so very final &#8211; but was Mozart planning a fugal Amen instead, as has been conjectured, and indeed reconstructed?  When I prefer the standard ending, am I falling into the same Romantic trap as those who truncated <i>Don Giovanni<\/i> so that it ended with the Don being dragged off to hell?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The children&#8217;s school is putting on one of its occasional concerts in which they invite parents and others associated with the school to boost the school choirs in a concert. I sang in the last of these; unfortunately I will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/03\/05\/the-great-chorus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,21],"tags":[760,246,29,890,165,891,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197"}],"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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}