{"id":4331,"date":"2016-10-19T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2016-10-20T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T23:18:15","slug":"my-michael-tippett-centre-dbut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/10\/19\/my-michael-tippett-centre-dbut\/","title":{"rendered":"My Michael Tippett Centre d&eacute;but"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only been to Bath Spa University&#8217;s Michael Tippett Centre a handful of times.  Not long after I moved to Bath I had a disastrous audition there, and I seem to recall rehearsing the Millennium performance of Mahler 8 there too.  I returned with the choir of Christ Church to sing Choral Evensong.<\/p>\n<p>We weren&#8217;t actually in the auditorium, but in the foyer.  This resembles Bath&#8217;s crematorium chapel in giving you the illusion of being outside, with farmland visible through the large expanses of glass.  The handsome cattle there seemed appreciative; at any rate, they moved nearer during the service.  <\/p>\n<p>We had a piano nearby but chose unaccompanied repertoire by Gibbons and Grayston Ives.  The foyer actually has a pleasant acoustic.  Maybe next time I perform there I&#8217;ll have graduated to the main space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only been to Bath Spa University&#8217;s Michael Tippett Centre a handful of times. Not long after I moved to Bath I had a disastrous audition there, and I seem to recall rehearsing the Millennium performance of Mahler 8 there &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2016\/10\/19\/my-michael-tippett-centre-dbut\/\">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":[1263,71,110,579,1262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331"}],"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=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}