{"id":3664,"date":"2015-04-28T17:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2015-04-28T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T17:47:14","slug":"wincanton-tunes-up-for-25th-anniversary-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"Wincanton tunes up for 25th anniversary concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/Choral-spring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3666\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=3666\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/Choral-spring.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"526,740\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Richard&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1430243899&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Choral spring\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/Choral-spring.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3666 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/Choral-spring-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Choral spring\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/Choral-spring-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2015\/04\/Choral-spring.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Wincanton Choral Society, which boasts several Horsington residents\u00a0among\u00a0its membership, is\u00a0celebrating its 25th year \u2013 a year younger than Milborne Port Opera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 25th Anniversary concert, on Sunday 17th May 2015 in the Wincanton Leisure Centre, remembers the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>The performance will include the &#8216;Spirit of England&#8217;, Elgar&#8217;s last choral work, which he was inspired by Laurence Binyon&#8217;s famous post-war poetry. It&#8217;s \u00a0a powerful, inspiring and thought-provoking \u00a0work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Songs of the Fleet&#8217; by Charles Villiers Stanford was written to celebrate the accession in 1910 of a new King (George V), who was a Navy man. It&#8217;s a light-hearted piece written by and for people with a love of the sea and with pride in the Royal Navy.<\/p>\n<p>Musical director, Stephen Twistelton, has written a choral piece for the anniversary performance. The choir will sing his very moving piece \u201cThe Argument of His Book\u201d, based on a beautiful Finnish poem, with soloists Paul Bradley (Tenor) and Philip Smith (Baritone).<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available from 01749 813899 or from the Box Office: www.netaticket.co.uk. Prices are \u00a314.00 in advance if bought by 11th May, \u00a315.00 on the door with under 18s at \u00a37.00 at any time. 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The performance will include the &#8216;Spirit of England&#8217;, Elgar&#8217;s last choral work, which he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=3664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wincanton tunes up for 25th anniversary concert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-X6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}