{"id":5941,"date":"2021-12-22T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2022-01-19T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T23:44:03","slug":"three-carol-services-and-a-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/12\/22\/three-carol-services-and-a-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"three carol services and a wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After the <i>Christmas Oratorio<\/i> at the beginning of December I didn&#8217;t have any more Christmas concerts, but I had more carol services than usual: Advent, a special one on behalf of the local hospital, and the church Christmas one (which I&#8217;ve missed singing in the last few years).  We stuck to familiar (to us) pieces for Advent and I am gradually working my way through the O antiphons: this time it was <i>O Rex gentium<\/i>.  The Christmas carol service included two pieces (and composers) new to me: Ian Assersohn&#8217;s medi\u00e6val-inspired <i>Make we joy now in this fest<\/i> and Samuel Pegg&#8217;s <i>The wise men<\/i> (a setting of G K Chesterton) as well as a setting of <i>In the Bleak Midwinter<\/i> by a member of the choir. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the middle of this we had a wedding of a choir member; I have sung at few such occasions since I was a student. The choice of hymns and anthems appropriately exploited the nuptial imagery associated with Advent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Christmas Oratorio at the beginning of December I didn&#8217;t have any more Christmas concerts, but I had more carol services than usual: Advent, a special one on behalf of the local hospital, and the church Christmas one (which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2021\/12\/22\/three-carol-services-and-a-wedding\/\">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":[86,71,1476,1477,1231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941"}],"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=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}