{"id":24077,"date":"2020-02-12T22:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24077"},"modified":"2020-02-12T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T21:56:21","slug":"the-vale-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=24077","title":{"rendered":"The Vale is Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag20\/20021202.jpg\" alt=\"Vales are Alive\" \/><br \/>\nPeter often sends me advance notification of concerts by the Abingdon and District Musical Society (ADMS). There are two concerts in March. The concerts will be held at St Helen&#8217;s Church. The conductor will be Alexander Walker and the orchestra will be led by Kate Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 7th March at 7:30 pm (orchestral concert):<br \/>\n&#8220;Four Last Songs&#8221; by Richard Strauss<br \/>\n&#8220;Symphony No. 1&#8221; by Elgar<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 21st March at 7:30 pm (choral concert):<br \/>\n&#8220;Cantique de Jean Racine&#8221; by Faure<br \/>\n&#8220;Rejoice in the Lamb&#8221; by Britten<br \/>\n&#8220;Requiem&#8221; by Durufle<\/p>\n<p>Abingdon &amp; District Musical Society have been performing since 1946. They have a large mixed voice choir and a full symphony orchestra \u2013 both led by professional musicians.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18031402.jpg\" alt=\"Vales are Alive\" \/><br \/>\nIt makes me wonder how a town the size of Abingdon, in the Vale of the White Horse, has so many musical groups and societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter often sends me advance notification of concerts by the Abingdon and District Musical Society (ADMS). There are two concerts in March. The concerts will be held at St Helen&#8217;s Church. The conductor will be Alexander Walker and the orchestra will be led by Kate Bailey. Saturday 7th March at 7:30 pm (orchestral concert): &#8220;Four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077","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=24077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}