{"id":2089,"date":"2014-12-08T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T09:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2014-12-08T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T09:29:47","slug":"bexhill-choral-society-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"Bexhill Choral Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/carols.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2090 alignright\" alt=\"carols\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/carols.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">St Augustine\u2019s, Bexhill<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday 6 December<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Concerts seem to come around all too quickly these days \u2013 or is it just that I am getting older? The key features of Bexhill Choral Society\u2019s programme of <i>Carols and Christmas Music<\/i> was the gentle tension between the three very prominent arrangers. David Willcocks was represented by a number of traditional carols in a pleasantly familiar format, in contrast to John Rutter\u2019s more modern and at times more challenging settings. Over-arching all of these was Kenneth Robert\u2019s own arrangements, many involving Cinque Ports Brass Ensemble and even, in the last item, himself on clarinet.<\/p>\n<p>This all made for a highly convincing programme which ranged from some exquisite early music by Praetorius and cheerfully sung Bach, to contemporary carols. Throughout, the choir was joined by baritone Peter Grevatt who was called upon far more than usual, not only to sing with the choir in <i>The Boar\u2019s Head Carol<\/i> and <i>Gaudete<\/i>, but to provide solos. He gave us the first part of <i>The Trumpet Shall Sound<\/i> \u2013 most ably supported by solo trumpeter Andy Gill \u2013 and a rollicking version of Sterndale-Bennett\u2019s <i>The Carol Singers. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Nigel Howard was kept busy moving from organ to keyboard, and was joined by Robert Aldwinckle at the piano in some items.<\/p>\n<p>As is customary, we were encouraged to join in six of the carols, which we did with enthusiasm, and to relax a little more towards the end when we heard <i>Walking in the air, Let it Snow <\/i>and <i>Santa Claus is coming to Town. <\/i>\u00a0These concerts always leave us asking for more, but then it is only 52 weeks until the next time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Augustine\u2019s, Bexhill Saturday 6 December &nbsp; Christmas Concerts seem to come around all too quickly these days \u2013 or is it just that I am getting older? The key features of Bexhill Choral Society\u2019s programme of Carols and Christmas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2089\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}