{"id":519,"date":"2008-12-20T23:41:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2015-10-06T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T11:54:47","slug":"the-lion-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/12\/20\/the-lion-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion, Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/berkshire\/content\/articles\/2007\/04\/30\/kingsley_sent_off_feature.shtml\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/berkshire\/content\/articles\/2007\/04\/30\/kingsley_sent_off_feature.shtml', 'Kingsley');\">Kingsley<\/a> but the title of a movement in <i>True and False Unicorn<\/i>, part of the Chandos Singers&#8217; tribute to Finnish independence day.  We began with <i>Freedom on Saint Nicholas&#8217; Day<\/i> by Hyv&ouml;nen, a composer whose career sadly ended when it had barely begun; he died aged about 20.  Next came the <i>Agnus Dei<\/i> from Kokkonen&#8217;s <i>Missa a cappella<\/i>; illness in the tenor section prevented us from doing the complete work, so it lives to fight another day.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was Rautavaara&#8217;s <i>True and False Unicorn<\/i> which included a wide variety of vocal techniques and styles: everything from a spiritual to serialism (in &#8216;Sigmund of Vienna&#8217;).  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the Finnish Embassy sent a representative, but they did advertise us on their website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not Kingsley but the title of a movement in True and False Unicorn, part of the Chandos Singers&#8217; tribute to Finnish independence day. We began with Freedom on Saint Nicholas&#8217; Day by Hyv&ouml;nen, a composer whose career sadly ended when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2008\/12\/20\/the-lion-reading\/\">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":[21],"tags":[219,1068,1065,1069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}