{"id":4093,"date":"2016-05-09T15:58:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:58:47","slug":"the-adventure-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/05\/09\/the-adventure-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The adventure begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last &#8211; some eight months after I auditioned &#8211; the rehearsals for the Three Choirs Festival Chorus are starting.  Easily the biggest single choral undertaking I&#8217;ve ever been involved in.  I have cleared my diary, bashed as many notes as I can (and I have to learn an awful lot of them for the first time), pencilled in all the markings and am ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reporting from time to time, but because I don&#8217;t report on how things are going overall, it will mostly start off by being about my experience of learning <i>Dona Nobis Pacem<\/i>, <i>Carmina Burana<\/i>, <i>The Kingdom<\/i> and Walton&#8217;s <i>Festival Te Deum<\/i> &#8211; and that of re-encountering <i>Elijah<\/i> after many years.  Perhaps contrary to the experience of others in the choir, Mahler 8 and the <i>Grande Messe des Morts<\/i> will be light relief to me, as those are the pieces I already know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last &#8211; some eight months after I auditioned &#8211; the rehearsals for the Three Choirs Festival Chorus are starting. Easily the biggest single choral undertaking I&#8217;ve ever been involved in. I have cleared my diary, bashed as many notes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/05\/09\/the-adventure-begins\/\">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":[8,9],"tags":[1171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093"}],"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=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}