{"id":830,"date":"2009-10-16T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2015-10-07T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T11:04:05","slug":"another-memorial-service-at-merton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2009\/10\/16\/another-memorial-service-at-merton\/","title":{"rendered":"another memorial service at Merton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2009\/02\/02\/a-memorial-service-at-merton\/\">earlier in the year<\/a> about a memorial service I went to in Oxford. I was back again on Saturday for another such service, this time commemorating a contemporary and friend of mine who died before his time.<\/p>\n<p>We kept the music simple; I and another friend sang the top two parts of Mozart&#8217;s <i>Ave Verum<\/i> as a duet, and there were also songs by Gounod and organ music by Bach. We were accompanied by the current organ scholar; earlier, I had heard the college choir singing at the end of an open rehearsal they were giving.<\/p>\n<p>There were about a tenth of the number at the other service, but somehow both congregations seemed to be the right size for the chapel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier in the year about a memorial service I went to in Oxford. I was back again on Saturday for another such service, this time commemorating a contemporary and friend of mine who died before his time. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2009\/10\/16\/another-memorial-service-at-merton\/\">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":[211,165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}