{"id":7051,"date":"2025-11-11T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=7051"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:51:45","slug":"all-souls-day-at-bath-abbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2025\/11\/11\/all-souls-day-at-bath-abbey\/","title":{"rendered":"All Souls Day at Bath Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey Chamber Choir sang evensong for a transferred observance of All Souls&#8217; Day.  I&#8217;m not sure whether this was a first for Bath Abbey, but we were able to submit names of the departed in advance and they were remembered by name during the service.  [A later suggestion that incense might be used at one of the Christmas services was, however, firmly refused.]  Clearly quite a few people asked for this, though the list was not as long as at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2017\/11\/20\/how-to-commemorate-370-people\/\">another service in Bath<\/a> some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We sang Sumsion in A and Bullock&#8217;s <i>Give us the wings of faith<\/i>.  In October, the choir sang one of the large-scale anthems that were commoner in its repertoire when it was founded four years ago: Harris&#8217; <i>Strengthen ye the weak hands<\/i>, which was known to few, other than me and those who&#8217;d been at the same college as our conductor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abbey Chamber Choir sang evensong for a transferred observance of All Souls&#8217; Day. I&#8217;m not sure whether this was a first for Bath Abbey, but we were able to submit names of the departed in advance and they were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2025\/11\/11\/all-souls-day-at-bath-abbey\/\">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":[172,1617,1618,1619,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051"}],"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=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}