{"id":5905,"date":"2021-12-11T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2022-01-08T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:40:17","slug":"front-row-for-2-4-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/12\/11\/front-row-for-2-4-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Front-row for 2 &times; 4 Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5935\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/frontrow.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5935\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5935\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/frontrow-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"moon and view from front-row seat\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/frontrow-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/frontrow.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the view from our seat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to our association with a sponsor of the concert, we were offered front-row seats in Bath Abbey for Bath Minerva Choir and Bath Philharmonia presenting two cycles of the four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The first part was the familiar Vivaldi, with Braimah Kanneh-Mason as the capable soloist standing a few feet away from us. Part 2 was a new work, Paul Carr&#8217;s <i>Four New Seasons<\/i>, setting appropriate poetry with subtle references to Vivaldi woven into the texture. It was good to hear Bath Minerva Choir in fine voice &#8211; I recognised quite a few faces &#8211; and to observe the orchestra at close quarters (we had a particularly good view of the harpist, who was given a lot to do). Definitely a pleasant and welcome way to spend a Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to our association with a sponsor of the concert, we were offered front-row seats in Bath Abbey for Bath Minerva Choir and Bath Philharmonia presenting two cycles of the four seasons. The first part was the familiar Vivaldi, with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/12\/11\/front-row-for-2-4-seasons\/\">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":[10],"tags":[172,491,87,1472,254,296,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905"}],"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=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}