{"id":5907,"date":"2021-12-09T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2022-01-01T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T12:27:54","slug":"as-long-as-the-sun-and-moon-endureth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/12\/09\/as-long-as-the-sun-and-moon-endureth\/","title":{"rendered":"as long as the sun and moon endureth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These were rather appropriate words in our psalm at evensong in Bath Abbey today.  An installation consisting of a large suspended model of the Moon has appeared in Bath Abbey, similar to the one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2020\/10\/26\/choir-returns-3-gloucester\/\">Earth<\/a> that was doing the rounds a year or so ago.  It makes its presence felt aurally; there is a slight hum from the pump that keeps it filled with air, and dampens the acoustic in the choir area.<\/p>\n<p>We were actually in the &#8216;corporation stalls&#8217; further east than the Moon and the former choir stall location, which presents a further challenge in accompanied pieces because the organ is now round the corner from the choir.  For this evensong our music included Howells&#8217; canticles in B minor, Gjeilo&#8217;s <i>Ubi caritas<\/i> and Parry&#8217;s <i>My soul there is a country<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were rather appropriate words in our psalm at evensong in Bath Abbey today. An installation consisting of a large suspended model of the Moon has appeared in Bath Abbey, similar to the one of the Earth that was doing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/12\/09\/as-long-as-the-sun-and-moon-endureth\/\">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":[20],"tags":[172,1461,1475,45,1474,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907"}],"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=5907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5907\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}