{"id":6018,"date":"2022-05-12T22:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T22:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2022-05-12T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T22:02:19","slug":"a-workshop-on-the-eighth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/05\/12\/a-workshop-on-the-eighth\/","title":{"rendered":"a workshop on The Eighth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years on from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/07\/16\/the-big-sing\/\">Berlioz<\/a>, the South Cotswold Big Sing Group is reconvening, this time to perform Mahler&#8217;s Eighth Symphony.  Sadly, the advance workshop in Gloucester was all I&#8217;m going to get of this, as I&#8217;m not free to sing in the performance.  But I came along anyway, having missed singing with large groups.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve alternated between Choir 1 and Choir 2 when I&#8217;ve sung this, and it was Choir 1&#8217;s turn.  In the morning we rehearsed on our own, and then were joined by the other lot, and at some point all the notes got sung.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards I dashed out to my local bookshop to get my hands on a copy of <i>The Eighth<\/i> by Stephen Johnson.  Our conductor has made dire predictions that health and safety will make performing the work impossible in future, but I hope that won&#8217;t be the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years on from Berlioz, the South Cotswold Big Sing Group is reconvening, this time to perform Mahler&#8217;s Eighth Symphony. Sadly, the advance workshop in Gloucester was all I&#8217;m going to get of this, as I&#8217;m not free to sing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/05\/12\/a-workshop-on-the-eighth\/\">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":[19],"tags":[812,141,1358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018"}],"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=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}