{"id":6304,"date":"2023-05-27T00:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:04:51","slug":"coronation-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2023\/05\/27\/coronation-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the Coronation ceremony with a keen ear for the music performed.  I wonder which of the various new pieces I&#8217;ll be asked to sing first?  (My money&#8217;s on Tarik O&#8217;Regan&#8217;s.)<\/p>\n<p>British coronations have been over recent centuries been quite a source of good pieces for the repertoire.  Some personal favourites from the less obvious ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purcell, <i>I was glad<\/i> (which I sang at Bath Abbey the day after this one)<\/li>\n<li>Elgar, <i>O hearken Thou<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Williams, <i>O taste and see<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Howells, <i>Behold O God our defender<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Commissions for recent royal weddings haven&#8217;t fared so well.  I think you have to go back to Mathias&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2020\/02\/08\/a-weekend-with-mathias\/\"><i>Let the people praise thee O God<\/i><\/a> (for Charles and Diana) to find one that&#8217;s really stuck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the Coronation ceremony with a keen ear for the music performed. I wonder which of the various new pieces I&#8217;ll be asked to sing first? (My money&#8217;s on Tarik O&#8217;Regan&#8217;s.) British coronations have been over recent centuries been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2023\/05\/27\/coronation-pieces\/\">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":[60,45,231,83,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304"}],"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=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}