{"id":2468,"date":"2014-07-07T21:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T21:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2015-08-18T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:23:29","slug":"wyvern-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/07\/07\/wyvern-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyvern Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to sing in the <a href=\"\/vhkssinging\/2014\/03\/05\/the-great-chorus\/\">Great Chorus<\/a> but there was a reprise of two pieces that were performed at it: <i>Zadok the Priest<\/i> and the <i>Hallelujah Chorus<\/i> at the end-of-year Commemoration Service in Bath Abbey.  This gathering must be the largest concentration of images of wyverns anywhere &#8211; these heraldic beasts are the school mascot and appear on blazers, ties and on the front of the order of service.<\/p>\n<p>It all happened early on Saturday morning (so that we got out of the Abbey before the peak visiting hours).  I filled in the second soprano part in Zadok, and because another singer missed the rehearsal and only found out she didn&#8217;t have the music for Hallelujah as we were about to sing it, I handed her my copy and did my Bristol Choral party piece of singing it from memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to sing in the Great Chorus but there was a reprise of two pieces that were performed at it: Zadok the Priest and the Hallelujah Chorus at the end-of-year Commemoration Service in Bath Abbey. This gathering must &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/07\/07\/wyvern-central\/\">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":[7,20],"tags":[172,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}