{"id":3094,"date":"2016-07-10T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2016-07-10T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T07:03:11","slug":"hastings-philharmonic-choir-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Hastings Philharmonic Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Christ Church, Hastings, Saturday 9 July 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The summer concert drew together Hastings Philharmonic Choir and Sedlescombe School Choir, leading to a packed audience in Christ Church, with large numbers of small children.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last twenty five years Marian Hame has worked tirelessly to maintain a high standard of choral singing in Sedlescombe and this was very obvious from their crisp diction and exemplary balance in Anderson\u2019s <i>Father in my life I see<\/i> and Townend\u2019s lyrically pleasing setting of <i>The Lord is my Shepherd. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The children\u2019s choir also joined HPC to sing the <i>Pie Jesu <\/i>in Faure\u2019s Requiem which concluded the programme. The adult choir was in its usual fine form and the <i>Sanctus<\/i> was particularly pleasing. Conductor Marcio da Silva provided the baritone solo for <i>Hostias <\/i>and <i>Libera me <\/i>adding to his reputation as a solo singer, following his recent Schumann recital.<\/p>\n<p>If the concert had simply been the items noted above all would probably have been well but there was a severe miscalculation over the nature of the event. The afternoon had opened with Carissimi\u2019s <i>Jephte.<\/i> This is a lovely work providing a subtle setting of the tragedy with a profoundly moving final chorus. Unfortunately it sounded under-rehearsed, with soloists ill-prepared. Though the programme listed a cast there was no indication of who was who, as no text was provided and no detailed programme note. As a result the audience became restive during the first half-hour of the performance, and it was obvious many families were having to work extremely hard to keep smaller children engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Given that HCP now has a very high reputation for their performances this was unexpected and potentially off-putting for any members of the audience coming to choral music for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Where this could have been a delightful afternoon encouraging children in the joys of adult choral music, this may have seriously dented their interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church, Hastings, Saturday 9 July 2016 The summer concert drew together Hastings Philharmonic Choir and Sedlescombe School Choir, leading to a packed audience in Christ Church, with large numbers of small children. Over the last twenty five years Marian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3094\">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\/3094"}],"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=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3095,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}