{"id":5532,"date":"2020-04-27T22:09:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2020-05-04T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T22:19:16","slug":"the-final-of-the-evensong-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2020\/04\/27\/the-final-of-the-evensong-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"the final of the Evensong World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my two favourite canticles settings made it to the semifinals, but then both lost and met one another in the third place playoff.  Gibbons Second beat Howells St Paul&#8217;s in that match (not by a huge margin).  I was pleased they did so well, though on the other hand it suggests my taste in canticles is not as distinctive and particular to me as I&#8217;d thought.  Some, including the organiser, expressed surprise that the Gibbons got so far, seeing off opposition such as Stanford in A, Murrill in E and a setting by Judith Weir.  I can think of one possible reason (other than that it is a stonkingly good setting): there was a known tendency for people to vote for settings where they&#8217;d sung a solo, and there are a lot of solo parts in the Gibbons Second Service.  <\/p>\n<p>Many of those who took part singled out particular moments in their favourite settings.  I can&#8217;t do that for the Gibbons &#8211; the appeal to me derives from the way the verse and full sections simply flow on from one another.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5536\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/glocs.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5536\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5536\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/glocs-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"Gloucester Cathedral, west elevation\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/glocs-300x284.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/glocs-768x728.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/glocs.jpg 1016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloucester Cathedral, west elevation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My prediction of the final result was wrong and Howells Gloucester just held off Coll. Reg.  I voted for it; when I first learnt Coll. Reg. I found it hard to sing because it lay in a tricky part of my voice and it&#8217;s never been a particular favourite of mie.  Besides, Gloucester goes up to a top A, and I also have some loyalty to places I go to sing.  During lockdown I have amused myself by constructing little models using a small set of architect&#8217;s blocks, and I duly built a tribute to the victor.<\/p>\n<p>A sequel pitting anthems against one another is planned; this time I&#8217;ll be in at the group stages.  [May 4th: it&#8217;s about to start! I sent in my suggestions: essentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/09\/14\/ten-favourite-anthems\/\">this list<\/a> minus Poulenc (Christmas period excluded) and with a second Purcell anthem to replace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my two favourite canticles settings made it to the semifinals, but then both lost and met one another in the third place playoff. Gibbons Second beat Howells St Paul&#8217;s in that match (not by a huge margin). I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2020\/04\/27\/the-final-of-the-evensong-world-cup\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532"}],"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=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}