{"id":262,"date":"2008-07-01T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:25:47","slug":"another-return-to-st-albans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/07\/01\/another-return-to-st-albans\/","title":{"rendered":"another return to St Alban&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I last sang with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyradavidica.com\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.lyradavidica.com\/', 'Lyra Davidica');\">Lyra Davidica<\/a>, Princess Diana was alive and Sri Lanka were scoring 952\/6 against India (I recall someone bursting into breakfast on that choir tour brandishing a newspaper: &#8216;Just LOOK at THIS!!&#8217;). In the meantime I faded from the memories of most people associated with the choir, but I remained on the email list and was able to join a choir weekend at St Alban&#8217;s at the end of May. (St. Alban&#8217;s Abbey\/Cathedral is beginning to feel like a home from home; this is the third time I have sung there in 18 months, with 3 different choirs. In fact I was also invited to sing there on the previous Monday, with yet another choir, but was doing the B minor mass instead.)<\/p>\n<p>The music for the evensong and Eucharist that we sang was well-known to me, with the exception of Brian Moles&#8217; setting of &#8216;At the round earth&#8217;s imagined corners&#8217; which I believe the choir premiered recently.  The Cathedral is in a certain amount of disarray at the moment as the organ is being rebuilt and there is scaffolding in the nave which reduces the acoustic; but I can see why they might want to do these two pieces of work at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I last sang with Lyra Davidica, Princess Diana was alive and Sri Lanka were scoring 952\/6 against India (I recall someone bursting into breakfast on that choir tour brandishing a newspaper: &#8216;Just LOOK at THIS!!&#8217;). In the meantime I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/07\/01\/another-return-to-st-albans\/\">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":[20],"tags":[1100,1099,250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}