{"id":951,"date":"2013-04-14T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T07:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=951"},"modified":"2013-04-14T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T07:45:23","slug":"stephen-page-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s-page-for-web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-492 alignright\" alt=\"s page for web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s-page-for-web-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Hastings Unitarian Church, 13 April 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first in the new series of organ concerts opened with a sprightly rendition of Purcell\u2019s <i>Trumpet Tune<\/i> which had the additional pleasure of the <i>Air <\/i>which is so often omitted. In a programme of gentle music, which seemed to match the gentle April showers outside, we next heard Charles S McClain\u2019s Prelude on <i>Were You There<\/i>, which has just enough acid in its textures to keep the mind involved.<\/p>\n<p>Three short pieces by the sixteenth century Virginalist Giles Farnaby suited the Snetzler very well, with its soft flute particularly apt for the <i>Spagnioletta. <\/i>Jacques Berthier is better known as the composer of many Taize chants, but here we heard his mellifluous variations on <i>Lobe den Herren. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bach\u2019s Prelude &amp; Fugue No22 from Book 1 of the 48 was followed by <i>Reverie <\/i>by Vierne. This allowed Stephen to indulge himself in the solo Dulciana, managing to sound far more romantic than it should.<\/p>\n<p>The second movement of William Russell\u2019s Voluntary No5 has a prophetically Menselssohnian feel to it, with a warmth that led us easily into four short pieces by Howard Skempton. <i>Swedish Caprice<\/i> has jolly syncopation and there is a delightful irony in the extended melody for <i>Well, well, Cornelius.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Edmonstoune Duncan\u2019s <i>Solemn March <\/i>\u00a0should have been the end but \u2013 with summer in sight \u2013 Stephen gave us <i>Blaze Away<\/i> to send us home whistling happily.<\/p>\n<p>The next concert is on Saturday 29 June at 2.30pm, and there is an open invitation to the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1066 Choir &amp; Organ<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">President\u2019s Evening on 27 April at Sackville Road Methodist Church, Bexhill, at 7.30pm\u00a0 BH<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hastings Unitarian Church, 13 April 2013 The first in the new series of organ concerts opened with a sprightly rendition of Purcell\u2019s Trumpet Tune which had the additional pleasure of the Air which is so often omitted. In a programme &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=951\">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\/951"}],"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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}