{"id":6482,"date":"2023-09-30T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2023-11-05T15:40:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:40:33","slug":"the-abbey-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2023\/09\/30\/the-abbey-season-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"the Abbey season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Abbey Chamber Choir was quick to restart for the new season, with a conductor newly appointed to the Abbey&#8217;s music staff, and a midweek evensong livened up a September which was otherwise musically blank.  And it wasn&#8217;t standard pieces either!  Our canticles were mix&#8217;n&#8217;match: a four-part Magnificat on the first tone by Palestrina and a Nunc Dimittis by Victoria.  The anthem was <em>How beauteous are their feet<\/em> by Stanford.  What these all have in common is that I&#8217;ve only sung them once before (according to my records); in the case of the Palestrina and the Stanford, a long time ago!  Ley&#8217;s Prayer of Henry VI and Ayleward Responses were rather more familiar.  <\/p>\n<p>I miss the next service in the Abbey but after a couple of false starts we have a Cathedral visit coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bath Abbey Chamber Choir was quick to restart for the new season, with a conductor newly appointed to the Abbey&#8217;s music staff, and a midweek evensong livened up a September which was otherwise musically blank. And it wasn&#8217;t standard pieces &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2023\/09\/30\/the-abbey-season-begins\/\">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":[430,172,1461,1558,1557,305,49,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482"}],"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=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}