{"id":6146,"date":"2022-10-12T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2022-10-25T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:42:58","slug":"come-and-sing-vivaldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/10\/12\/come-and-sing-vivaldi\/","title":{"rendered":"come and sing Vivaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit wary of Come and Sing events these days.  They are popular with people who&#8217;ve largely retired from performing in choirs, and at the last two I&#8217;ve been to, my high notes have caused problems with nearby hearing aids.  However Vivaldi&#8217;s Gloria doesn&#8217;t go high very often, so it&#8217;s reasonably safe.  Bristol Choral Society will include it in our Christmas programme, but it is a work I am surprisingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/10\/01\/vivaldi-in-box\/\">unfamiliar<\/a> with so I went to increase my knowledge of it.  I think it is possibly the most straightforward of all standard choral works, but in spite of this (or perhaps because of it) it doesn&#8217;t stick in my memory very well.<\/p>\n<p>Participants have been slow to return to Come and Sings, so it was good to almost sell out this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit wary of Come and Sing events these days. They are popular with people who&#8217;ve largely retired from performing in choirs, and at the last two I&#8217;ve been to, my high notes have caused problems with nearby hearing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/10\/12\/come-and-sing-vivaldi\/\">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":[55,1432,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146"}],"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=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6152,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}