{"id":7023,"date":"2025-11-30T23:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:33:08","slug":"messiah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2025\/11\/30\/messiah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"a <i>Messiah<\/i> about which there isn&#8217;t much to say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 2025 was, I realise, a ridiculously busy month musically speaking.  My final performance of the month was <i>Messiah<\/i> in Gloucester Cathedral.  I&#8217;m beginning to run out of things to say about <i>Messiah<\/i>, which under natural conditions I&#8217;d aim to sing about one year in three.  In fact this particular performance was the first one I&#8217;d given in two years, as I was unable to sing in 2024&#8217;s, so I&#8217;d had some sort of a break from it.  <\/p>\n<p>We had a different accomanying ensemble this year &#8211; La Serenissima, who have given other performances at the Cathedral recently.  And, erm, I don&#8217;t have very much more to add except that everyone was definitely warmer than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2022\/12\/10\/an-unheated-messiah\/\">last time<\/a> I sang it there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2025 was, I realise, a ridiculously busy month musically speaking. My final performance of the month was Messiah in Gloucester Cathedral. I&#8217;m beginning to run out of things to say about Messiah, which under natural conditions I&#8217;d aim to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2025\/11\/30\/messiah-2\/\">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":[10],"tags":[812,353,629,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023"}],"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=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}