{"id":6110,"date":"2022-09-08T22:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T23:01:44","slug":"requiem-preparation-and-a-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/09\/08\/requiem-preparation-and-a-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem preparation and a funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My second overseas choir tour of the year approaches and in preparation for it the director of the German choir we&#8217;ll be joining forces with came over to take a day-long rehearsal.  We&#8217;ll be singing Brahms&#8217; German Requiem (twice!), which Bristol Choral Society sang back in 2017; I wasn&#8217;t able to sing in that concert though I went to rehearsals and have sung it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2019\/11\/30\/brahms-with-4-hands\/\">since with the four-hand accompaniment<\/a>.  It was a useful chance to learn his interpretation and priorities and show him that we knew the piece well.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly there was a real funeral a few days later, of a former chair of trustees at church.  We sang Mozart&#8217;s Ave Verum, a familiar piece but one that isn&#8217;t normally in the choir&#8217;s repertoire although a number of the congregation would like it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second overseas choir tour of the year approaches and in preparation for it the director of the German choir we&#8217;ll be joining forces with came over to take a day-long rehearsal. We&#8217;ll be singing Brahms&#8217; German Requiem (twice!), which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/09\/08\/requiem-preparation-and-a-funeral\/\">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":[142,55,71,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110"}],"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=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}