{"id":5960,"date":"2022-02-06T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2022-02-15T23:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T23:49:24","slug":"francis-jackson-and-the-missing-anthems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/02\/06\/francis-jackson-and-the-missing-anthems\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Jackson and the missing anthems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really thought that Francis Jackson might be immortal, but sadly he wasn&#8217;t. I have sung a fair amount of his music and have been struck by his liking for fourths.<\/p>\n<p>His Communion in G was a staple at my Cambridge College, but when I came to sing it with the Erleigh Cantors I think I was the only person who&#8217;d sung it before.  His Evening Canticles in G were another Cambridge staple, rather more generally known.  I&#8217;ve sung his Responses, and &#8211; just once each &#8211; his Benedicite and the <i>Missa Matris Dei<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So this is the unusual thing &#8211; are there any anthems by him in the repertoire?  It is rather odd that I&#8217;ve only done canticles, responses and Communion\/Mass settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really thought that Francis Jackson might be immortal, but sadly he wasn&#8217;t. I have sung a fair amount of his music and have been struck by his liking for fourths. His Communion in G was a staple at my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/02\/06\/francis-jackson-and-the-missing-anthems\/\">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":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960"}],"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=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}