{"id":3981,"date":"2017-12-09T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T11:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2017-12-09T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T11:10:32","slug":"treble-clefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"Treble Clefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">St John the Evangelist, Hollington, Thursday 7 December 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Treble Clefs started life as a WI Choir with just seven members \u2013 today, under their founder and conductor Keith Richardson, they number almost forty and make a remarkable impact not only musically but also in the funds raised for local charities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/treble-clefs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/treble-clefs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday they sang at St John\u2019s Hollington, to a comfortably full church, in aid of the roof restoration and on-going plans to develop the building, opening with <em>Joy to the World<\/em> and <em>Starry Night. <\/em>Alongside the many familiar items there was an impressive number of lesser known ones. Howard Davies <em>The angels sang the story <\/em>and Ray Steadman-Allen\u2019s <em>Long, long ago<\/em> were delightful additions to the regular canon as was Laura Farnell\u2019s <em>Come to the Celebration <\/em>written for a choral convention in the USA in 2015 and possibly being given its first performance here.<\/p>\n<p>To add a little variety, Stephen Page gave two splendid jazz arrangements for piano and later <em>Chestnuts roasting<\/em> and <em>Sleigh ride<\/em> on the churches pipe organ, now released from its wrappings while the roof was repaired.<\/p>\n<p>We were encouraged to join in with three carols plus the final enthusiastic renditions of <em>Winter wonderland <\/em>and <em>White Christmas. <\/em>It was a wonderful evening and could easily become a regular feature at St John\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St John the Evangelist, Hollington, Thursday 7 December 2017 Treble Clefs started life as a WI Choir with just seven members \u2013 today, under their founder and conductor Keith Richardson, they number almost forty and make a remarkable impact not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3981\">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\/3981"}],"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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}