{"id":6964,"date":"2025-11-16T20:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:49:37","slug":"my-prior-park-dbut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2025\/11\/16\/my-prior-park-dbut\/","title":{"rendered":"my Prior Park d&eacute;but"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/07\/08\/prior-park\/\">once<\/a> previously been in Prior Park Chapel.  I seized the chance to take part in a workshop afternoon there, led by Matthew Finch.  I hadn&#8217;t been to such an event organised by him before, and didn&#8217;t know anyone else there.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7063\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251115_161143.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7063\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251115_161143-225x300.png\" alt=\"Prior Park Chapel\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7063\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251115_161143-225x300.png 225w, http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251115_161143-768x1024.png 768w, http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251115_161143-1152x1536.png 1152w, http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251115_161143.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Lady of the Snows, Prior Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had been sent scores of several short pieces to download in advance, and sang through them, making sure all was secure.  All well known to me apart from a piece by Matthew Finch himself, and Parry&#8217;s <i>All in the stilly night<\/i>. Then we gave an informal performance of a selection (mostly the Tudor ones) at the end; a film of this is on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The chapel has a less resonant acoustic than you might expect but is a pleasant place to sing.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, there was the usual trot round to the nearby terrace to admire the view of the gardens.  I might well take part in another of these events, particularly if it&#8217;s in Wells Cathedral Chapter House (although a forthcoming meeting there clashes with a concert date).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have only once previously been in Prior Park Chapel. I seized the chance to take part in a workshop afternoon there, led by Matthew Finch. I hadn&#8217;t been to such an event organised by him before, and didn&#8217;t know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2025\/11\/16\/my-prior-park-dbut\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964"}],"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=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}