{"id":19548,"date":"2017-11-19T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19548"},"modified":"2017-11-19T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T23:12:13","slug":"from-shadow-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=19548","title":{"rendered":"From Shadow Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From Shadow Light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111901.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis evening at St Helen&#8217;s Church there was a choral concert by Vox Coelestis. They are no ordinary choir. Formed in 2005 as a collection of musical friends they sang first on a one off basis to raise funds for the organ appeal at Holy Trinity, Coventry. Since then they have come together to perform 14 concerts and raised over \u00a316,000 for a range of charities. And this evening they performed their 15th concert to raise funds for the Abingdon Bridge. <\/p>\n<p>Singers are drawn from cathedral and chamber choirs across the UK. They were very very good. I loved the pieces where they sang from different places in the church. In one piece the sopranos were situated round the church singing a plain chant, and the rest of the choir gathered to sing from the front.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From Shadow Light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17111902.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Abingdon Bridge often has to help young people going through difficult times, and the music was by composers who had had their own sufferings. From Shadow Light &#8211; out of times of great mental anguish, distress and illness, beautiful choral music had been created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening at St Helen&#8217;s Church there was a choral concert by Vox Coelestis. They are no ordinary choir. Formed in 2005 as a collection of musical friends they sang first on a one off basis to raise funds for the organ appeal at Holy Trinity, Coventry. Since then they have come together to perform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548","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=19548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}