{"id":4800,"date":"2017-12-04T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2017-12-04T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T00:04:13","slug":"i-had-that-barry-rose-in-the-back-of-my-congregation-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2017\/12\/04\/i-had-that-barry-rose-in-the-back-of-my-congregation-once\/","title":{"rendered":"I had that Barry Rose in the back of my congregation once&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This happened to me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/08\/20\/singing-to-barry-rose\/\">once before<\/a>, quite recently.  This time the occasion was a memorial service at church for Martin, who sang in the choir until a couple of years ago.  Martin was musically well connected (he&#8217;d been a recording engineer and worked in broadcasting, as well as singing in choirs) and both choir and congregation were swelled by people he&#8217;d known in that capacity.<\/p>\n<p>I realise I didn&#8217;t overlap with him for very long in our choir &#8211; only for a couple of years before illness began to make his appearances less frequent.  The music had been proposed by Martin himself and included Purcell&#8217;s <i>Remember not O Lord our offences<\/i> as well as anthems by Bainton (which I sang to Barry Rose last time, too) and Harris, so something for various different tastes.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that will be the last funeral\/memorial event of 2017.  I have been involved in six, including two family ones, which is more than enough for one year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This happened to me once before, quite recently. This time the occasion was a memorial service at church for Martin, who sang in the choir until a couple of years ago. Martin was musically well connected (he&#8217;d been a recording &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2017\/12\/04\/i-had-that-barry-rose-in-the-back-of-my-congregation-once\/\">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":[1311,20],"tags":[264,71,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800"}],"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=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4801,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}