{"id":4063,"date":"2016-04-28T22:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2016-04-28T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:56:21","slug":"five-sell-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/04\/28\/five-sell-outs\/","title":{"rendered":"Five sell-outs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public booking for the 3 Choirs Festival started earlier this month.  I had priority booking as a chorus member, though my account has been disabled and no one is able to reinstate it.  I managed to grab some tickets when public booking opened (the system was able to handle demand, unlike, say the ROH&#8217;s) but by then the nave of Gloucester Cathedral was sold out for five of the six concerts I&#8217;m singing in (not the one with <i>Carmina Burana<\/i> in).  Possibly it had been sold out for a while, so it would have made little difference if I&#8217;d used priority booking.  This is, let me remind you, over three months before the festival itself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m delighted to be singing to a packed Cathedral night after night, but at the same time I wonder why, if choral concerts sell out so easily, why the Bath Festival isn&#8217;t reinstating its chorus?  I can think of several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bath Abbey is smaller than any of the 3 Choirs Cathedrals and can&#8217;t really accommodate a full-size orchestra.  Wells Cathedral can, but it is some distance away and has become harder to hire in recent years<\/li>\n<li>The concerts are expensive to put on, and may not make much profit even if they sell out<\/li>\n<li>The 3 Choirs Festival has been running for over 300 years and has a dedicated body of supporters, many of whom go each year and buy up the tickets.  I&#8217;m not sure the Bath Festival has anything like that sort of following<\/li>\n<li>Choral music has always been at the heart of the 3 Choirs Festival (the clue&#8217;s in the name).  The Festival Chorus has rather come and gone during the Bath Festival&#8217;s history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public booking for the 3 Choirs Festival started earlier this month. I had priority booking as a chorus member, though my account has been disabled and no one is able to reinstate it. I managed to grab some tickets when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/04\/28\/five-sell-outs\/\">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":[9],"tags":[346,353,1171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063"}],"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=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}