{"id":2905,"date":"2014-10-01T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2015-08-18T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:23:11","slug":"vivaldi-in-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/10\/01\/vivaldi-in-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivaldi in Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was invited (via a contact at the children’s school) to sing in a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria in Box, just east of Bath with Ian Phipps and the Bybrook Players and Singers. This is a work I’ve managed to miss out on – the only time I’ve performed it before was a come and sing in Derby<\/a>. I was due to do it with Bristol Choral Society about a year ago, but pulled out in order to do another concert (whose programme was then changed, but that is another story). <\/p>\n

As it’s a work that everyone is assumed to know, the rehearsal was more or less just a run through. So I still don’t feel all that familiar with the piece. The programme also included viol da gamba music played by Vanessa Coode and the first performance of a cello concerto written and played by a colleague of my husband’s, Mathew Penrose.<\/p>\n

As my singing is largely outside Bath these days, I was looking forward to renewing contact with musical Bathonians. There were several other former members of the Chantry Singers present, but a large number of the choir came from outside the city, some having travelled quite a distance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was invited (via a contact at the children’s school) to sing in a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria in Box, just east of Bath with Ian Phipps and the Bybrook Players and Singers. This is a work I’ve managed to … Continue reading →<\/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":[720,469,721,718,717,719,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905"}],"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=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}