{"id":5957,"date":"2022-02-05T20:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2022-02-05T20:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T20:10:23","slug":"a-epiphany-carol-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/02\/05\/a-epiphany-carol-service\/","title":{"rendered":"a Epiphany carol service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a new development at Bath Abbey and the Chamber Choir was singing.  One novelty for me <i>The Magi&#8217;s Dream<\/i> by James Whitbourn, better known to me as a producer of Choral Evensong broadcasts, with words by Robert Tear, better known to me as a singer. (I have sung a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2015\/06\/02\/some-contrasting-magnificats\/\">Mass setting<\/a> by Whitbourn.)  Notable for its gradually increasing tempi and rather abrupt ending, it can be heard in a recording by King&#8217;s College Choir.<\/p>\n<p>Our introit from the West end was <i>Omnes de Saba<\/i> by Handl, which I did years ago with the Chantry Singers.  Apart from that we sang some usual suspects by Lauridsen, Cornelius and Howells.<br \/>\nJanuary also contained a sad event of a kind I&#8217;ve mostly been spared, the funeral of a member of our church choir.  The rest of the month was quiet, not least because I had a nasty cough which got in the way of any singing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a new development at Bath Abbey and the Chamber Choir was singing. One novelty for me The Magi&#8217;s Dream by James Whitbourn, better known to me as a producer of Choral Evensong broadcasts, with words by Robert Tear, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/02\/05\/a-epiphany-carol-service\/\">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":[172,1461,469,71,893,871,1359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957"}],"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=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}