{"id":238,"date":"2007-12-30T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/30\/avoiding-a-run-chase\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:53:02","slug":"avoiding-a-run-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/12\/30\/avoiding-a-run-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"avoiding a run chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last performance before Christmas was the <i>Messiah<\/i> with Chorus Angelorum and members of the Bath Philharmonia in Ottery St Mary.  I worked out that I must have sung at least nine performances of this now (here&#8217;s an account of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/12\/24\/two-christmas-events\/\">the previous one<\/a>), and probably most of them from the same vocal score, so I really should go round systematically rubbing out markings (apart from notes to myself about such matters as particular notes which are hard to tune and so on).<\/p>\n<p>This particular performance had few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2003\/12\/12\/cutting-the-messiah\/\">cuts<\/a> (of the choruses, only <i>Let all the angels of God<\/i> and <i>But thanks be to God<\/i> were lost).<\/p>\n<p>Our conductor gave us useful advice about tackling the runs, which I will pass on.  Try consciously slowing them down (obviously while keeping in time with the conductor).  I was a  bit sceptical about how one could do this, but it really worked for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last performance before Christmas was the Messiah with Chorus Angelorum and members of the Bath Philharmonia in Ottery St Mary. I worked out that I must have sung at least nine performances of this now (here&#8217;s an account of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2007\/12\/30\/avoiding-a-run-chase\/\">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":[21],"tags":[87,255,254,1022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}