{"id":4539,"date":"2017-02-08T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2019-02-08T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:16:10","slug":"why-go-on-foreign-choir-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2017\/02\/08\/why-go-on-foreign-choir-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"why go on foreign choir tours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t actually been on many choir tours overseas. I like singing and I like travel, but I don&#8217;t necessarily enjoy mixing the two, because on a choir tour one&#8217;s free time and opportunity to explore and meet local people is limited.  And also my first commitment is to being with my family.  But I regularly get enquiries as to whether I am interested in going on such tours.<\/p>\n<p>I know of one choir tour which is already oversubscribed with choir members, over a year ahead. While a few years ago I went on one where fewer than half of the singers had performed with the choir they nominally represented.  <\/p>\n<p>So why are some tours more attractive than others?  I can only speak for myself, but these are the sorts of questions I consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How attractive are the location, performance venues and other scheduled parts of the tour?  Do they fit in with &#8216;places I would like to go to&#8217;?<\/li>\n<li>What about the cost, both absolutely and as value for money?  On one tour I went on, the (not very large) choir subsidised six or seven professional musicians who travelled out with us, not including the conductor.<\/li>\n<li>And the repertoire to be performed? A piece I dislike is still a piece I dislike, wherever I happen to be singing it.<\/li>\n<li>Do I have confidence in the organisers &#8211; with regards to such matters as travel arrangements, accommmodation and quantity of free time?<\/li>\n<li>Who will be rehearsing and directing?  Someone I know and respect?<\/li>\n<li>Who are the other singers who will be going?  Do I already know them, and am I confident about the  ones I don&#8217;t know?  Will I get on with them, and will the performances be of a decent standard?<\/li>\n<li>How much time will it take, factoring in the time taken to get to and from the tour location from home?  Will I miss anything important at home?<\/li>\n<li>Will there be rehearsals beforehand, or will they take up a significant amount of time on the tour?\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t actually been on many choir tours overseas. I like singing and I like travel, but I don&#8217;t necessarily enjoy mixing the two, because on a choir tour one&#8217;s free time and opportunity to explore and meet local people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2017\/02\/08\/why-go-on-foreign-choir-tours\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539"}],"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=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}