{"id":11317,"date":"2014-04-27T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T09:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2014-04-27T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T09:07:28","slug":"come-and-sing-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=11317","title":{"rendered":"Come and Sing Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Come and Sing Messiah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14042702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday, at St Helen&#8217;s Church, there was a fund raising event for the Abingdon Passion Play production in 2016.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Come and Sing Messiah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag14\/14042701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSingers were asked to take part in Handel&#8217;s Messiah, the first and great English oratorio. In the morning they had vocal warm-up, workshops and rehearsals led by the musical director Ian Miles.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon rehearsal they were joined by Soloists and orchestra, and then there was an evening performance. The audience was not as large as such a performance merited. Lynn tweeted me &#8220;<em>Messiah incredible where were the towns folk?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, at St Helen&#8217;s Church, there was a fund raising event for the Abingdon Passion Play production in 2016. Singers were asked to take part in Handel&#8217;s Messiah, the first and great English oratorio. In the morning they had vocal warm-up, workshops and rehearsals led by the musical director Ian Miles. In the afternoon rehearsal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}