{"id":28,"date":"2004-06-12T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2007-02-28T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T20:36:48","slug":"my-heart-wants-to-sing-every-song-it-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"My heart wants to sing every song it hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harlingtonchoral.org.uk\/\">Harlington Singers<\/a> had their summer concert this evening, with me accompanying them on the piano.<\/p>\n<p>The line up, changed slightly, for reasons to be explained later, was:<\/p>\n<p>Ralph Vaughan Williams, Linden Lea<br \/>\nContantius Festa, Down in a Flowery Vale<br \/>\nThe Cuckoo<br \/>\nEric Coates, Bird Songs at Eventide<br \/>\nNino Rota, Take the Sun<br \/>\nSir Edward Elgar, As Torrents in Summer<br \/>\nSchubert, To Sylvia<br \/>\nScott Joplin, The Entertainer<br \/>\nMatyas Seiber, Three Hungarian Folksongs<br \/>\nCecil Sharp, Just as the Tide was a Flowing<br \/>\nJohn A. Glover-Kind, I do like to be beside the seaside<br \/>\nGeorge Gershwin, Summertime<br \/>\nAndrew Lloyd Webber, Don&#8217;t Cry for me Argentina<br \/>\nRichard Rogers, O What a beautiful morning<br \/>\nStephen Foster, Beautiful Dreamer<br \/>\nJohn Bratton, The Teddy Bear&#8217;s Picnic<br \/>\nPercy Grainger, Country Gardens<br \/>\nRichard Rogers, The Sound of Music<br \/>\nRichard Rogers, Edelweiss<br \/>\nRichard Rogers, Climb Every Mountain<\/p>\n<p>Looking at it &#8211; we did quite a lot of stuff! Some of the pieces were choral pieces, some were vocal solos and some were instrumental pieces &#8211; you can work out which ones are which yourself. I must say the choir performed brilliantly under the direction of the conductor. All the niggles and blunders encountered during the rehersals were nowhere to be seen, although pitching became difficult as the piano was very quiet. The soloists did very well, considering most of them are amateur singers.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the Beethoven Violin Sonata was postponed until another concert. Probably a wise idea given I was having problems with it and the violinist and myself had only had two rehersals playing together!<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the audience seemed to enjoy it, with at least warm applause (sometimes very enthusiastic applause) after each piece and some encouraging comments from them afterwards. Roll on the next concert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Harlington Singers had their summer concert this evening, with me accompanying them on the piano. The line up, changed slightly, for reasons to be explained later, was: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Linden Lea Contantius Festa, Down in a Flowery Vale The Cuckoo Eric Coates, Bird Songs at Eventide Nino Rota, Take the Sun Sir&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=28\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}