{"id":88,"date":"2004-12-24T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/2004\/12\/24\/two-christmas-events\/"},"modified":"2015-08-31T23:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T23:04:39","slug":"two-christmas-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/12\/24\/two-christmas-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Christmas events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly the <em>Messiah<\/em> in the exotically-dedicated St. Cyriac&#8217;s Church, Lacock. I was about due a chance to perform this as I think the last time I sang it was in 2000. The forces could hardly have been more different from the only previous time I sang with the Bath Philharmonia, the Mahler 8 in the 2000 Bath Festival. The performance was only slightly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2003\/12\/12\/cutting-the-messiah\/\">cut<\/a>; so we sang <em>But thanks be to God<\/em>, but not for example <em>Lift up your heads<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally before Christmas came the Exultate Singers&#8217; Christmas concert in St. James Priory church in Bristol.  As there were lots of items on the programme I can only single out a few.  The year ended for me as it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/01\/12\/westminster-abbey-2\/\">began<\/a>, with Morton Lauridsen&#8217;s <em>O magnum mysterium<\/em>.  Before this year I had not come across Holst&#8217;s <em>Ave Maria<\/em>, probably because it&#8217;s for eight female voices.  There were some arrangements new to me, such as Bob Chilcott&#8217;s swinging <em>Away in a manger<\/em> and Andrew Carter&#8217;s <em>I wander as I wander<\/em>, as well as another outing for some Advent music  from the Radio 4 broadcast and the carol in Spanish from the Viva! concert; this last, together with another Spanish carol, formed the finale, accompanied by a guitar\/percussion duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly the Messiah in the exotically-dedicated St. Cyriac&#8217;s Church, Lacock. I was about due a chance to perform this as I think the last time I sang it was in 2000. The forces could hardly have been more different from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2004\/12\/24\/two-christmas-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[884,36,127,29,35,312,488,198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}