{"id":4516,"date":"2018-07-28T10:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T09:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2018-07-28T10:21:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T09:21:16","slug":"harmony-one-gifts-from-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"Harmony One: Gifts from the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Holy Trinity, Hastings, Lunchtime concert 25 July 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The anniversary of the Suffrage movement has brought us some enthralling events, one of which was presented at Holy Trinity last week as part of the Lunchtime Concert series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harmony-One.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Harmony-One.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first half we heard recent compositions by Gwyneth Walker and Sarah Quartel. Gwyneth Walker\u2019s setting of a mystical love poem <em>I will be earth<\/em> is effective even if the text is often elusive. <em>Gifts from the Sea <\/em>is a longer piece which drifts and meditates on a woman\u2019s many roles in life.<\/p>\n<p>The least successful of her settings is of Tennyson\u2019s <em>Crossing the Bar<\/em> which tends to sentimentalise the poem, though it was persuasively sung.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Quartel\u2019s song settings are more extrovert with a captivating <em>Songbird<\/em> and <em>I Remember<\/em> which could be straight out of a West End musical. We will hear more of Sarah Quartel\u2019s work in the November concert.<\/p>\n<p>The last three items proved to be far more exciting if only because a very large part of the audience joined the choir on stage for three suffrage pieces, opening with Dame Ethel Smyth\u2019s <em>March of the Women. <\/em>Though her works suffered in the later part of the twentieth century she is beginning to be performed more widely, though we have yet to see a professional staging of <em>The Wreckers. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The March was followed by the delightful <em>Nana was a Suffragette<\/em> \u2013 unaccompanied and decidedly impactful.<\/p>\n<p>The concert concluded with Lucy Pankhurst\u2019s setting of <em>The Pankhurst Anthem<\/em> but the assembled forces were persuaded to an encore with <em>Rise Up Women \u2013 <\/em>which we were all happy to endorse.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Warren conducted and gave the cheerful linking narration, and the choir were accompanied by Helen Ridout from the piano.<\/p>\n<p>Concert continue until early September.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Trinity, Hastings, Lunchtime concert 25 July 2018 The anniversary of the Suffrage movement has brought us some enthralling events, one of which was presented at Holy Trinity last week as part of the Lunchtime Concert series. In the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4516\">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\/4516"}],"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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}