{"id":4523,"date":"2018-08-01T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2018-08-01T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:23:16","slug":"the-parkinsongsters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"The Parkinsongsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">St John the Evangelist, Hollington, Thursday 26<sup>th<\/sup> July 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Parkinsongsters brought us <em>Songs for a Summer Eve <\/em>on a delightfully warm evening, providing music we all knew and loved. The sixteen singers under their conductor Jane Metcalfe opened with <em>Sumer is icomen in<\/em> and bounced immediately into <em>Spread a little happiness, <\/em>before whisking us away to Venice for the <em>Barcarolle <\/em>from the <em>Tales of Hoffmann.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/parkinsongsters.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/parkinsongsters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first of a number of solos came from Bernard Crosby who encouraged us to join in <em>And her mother came to<\/em> which was followed by another familiar Ivor Novello song <em>Rose of England. <\/em>Having flirted their way through <em>You are my honeysuckle<\/em> the choir had a break while Karen McInally sang for us. I have to admit a personal interest here, as in my youth a lady at my church regularly sang <em>Pale Hands I Loved <\/em>but I don\u2019t think I have heard it since. It is a wonderful Edwardian ballad and was given all the sentimentality it needs. However before this we had enjoyed <em>There are fairies at the bottom of my garden \u2013 <\/em>just to set the right tone!<\/p>\n<p>A Colour Medley followed \u2013 too many tunes to list them all \u2013 but it included <em>Silver threads among the gold <\/em>from Ged Hitchman and Julie White. The final items included a gentle <em>Summertime,<\/em> a raucous <em>Torna a Surriento, <\/em>Bryan Skinner singing <em>Drink to me only<\/em> and all of us joining in <em>Oom pah pah. <\/em>There was just time before refreshments for a final chorus of <em>Bring me sunshine, <\/em>leaving us all wanting more and looking forward to next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St John the Evangelist, Hollington, Thursday 26th July 2018 The Parkinsongsters brought us Songs for a Summer Eve on a delightfully warm evening, providing music we all knew and loved. The sixteen singers under their conductor Jane Metcalfe opened with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4523\">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\/4523"}],"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=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}