{"id":5058,"date":"2019-03-24T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2019-03-24T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T18:37:34","slug":"deco-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5058","title":{"rendered":"Deco Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>St Nicolaus, Pevensey, Sunday 24 March 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It might seem rather risqu\u00e9 to sing cabaret songs in church on a fine Sunday afternoon but there was nothing in Sharon Lewis\u2019 entertainment to upset even the most prudish of potential listeners. Even Mae West\u2019s wonderfully tongue-in-cheek <em>I\u2019d rather put it off until tomorrow <\/em>proves to be completely innocent by the time we get to the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1860\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco.jpg 1860w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/St-Nic-Deco-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1860px) 100vw, 1860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Deco Delights <\/em>brought us an overview of songs from the mid-war period, and one has to admit there was so much good music written then she must have been spoilt for choice. Starting with <em>Love is the Sweetest Thing\u00b8 <\/em>we moved gently through <em>I\u2019ll string along with you, <\/em>and <em>Begin the Beguine <\/em>\u00a0before getting to a more up-beat <em>You\u2019re the cream in my coffee <\/em>\u00a0and a very sensuous <em>Lover come back to me. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having taken in Mae West she also gave us a touch of Josephine Baker with <em>J\u2019ai deux amours<\/em> before warning us all <em>It\u2019s a sin to tell a lie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The final two items moved us into the world of theatre with <em>Can\u2019t help loving that man of mine <\/em>and <em>Summertime,<\/em> with its high-lying line sitting very comfortably in her voice. There was just time for <em>Everything stops for tea<\/em> before it did just that and large amounts of cake were on offer while the tea came round.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Sharon Lewis was deftly accompanied by her composer husband Paul Lewis from the keyboard and his playing frequently underlined the humour of the songs. The rolling rhythms of <em>Begin the Beguine<\/em> were particularly apt.<\/p>\n<p>The next concert on 27 April brings us a solo harp and promises to be as entertaining as this series continues to prove to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Nicolaus, Pevensey, Sunday 24 March 2019 It might seem rather risqu\u00e9 to sing cabaret songs in church on a fine Sunday afternoon but there was nothing in Sharon Lewis\u2019 entertainment to upset even the most prudish of potential listeners. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5058\">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\/5058"}],"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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}