{"id":1303,"date":"2013-11-20T12:19:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:19:20","slug":"in-choir-within-emma-murton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2013\/11\/20\/in-choir-within-emma-murton\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Choir Within: Emma Murton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting some of the singers from the University Chamber Choir. This week,\u00a0(hailing stanuchly from Somerset!), soprano\u00a0<strong>Emma Murton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1305\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1305\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1305 \" alt=\"Bear necessities ?\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2013\/11\/murton_profile-300x224.jpeg\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2013\/11\/murton_profile-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2013\/11\/murton_profile.jpeg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear necessities ?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>How did you get into choral singing<\/strong> ? When being raised by a pack of wolves in the darkest glades of Somerset, a knack for loud howling was useful. Upon returning to the human world this progressed onto choral singing at Wells Cathedral and Somerset County Youth Choir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your favourite piece ?<\/strong> Very hard choice! Although I am prone to bouts of gibberish folk tunes that arise from testing barrels of cider, I will always love singing <em>The Long Day Closes<\/em> by Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s your best\/worst memory about singing in a choir ?<\/strong> My worst moment was when I was in a chorus singing Rutter&#8217;s <em>Requiem<\/em> at Wells cathedral. As we turned to move off the raised scaffolding the heel of my shoe got stuck and I stumbled, dropped all my music and watched it plonk the head of the person in front whilst I was left windmilling the air to gain some balance, managing to successfully whack most of the altos as I did!<\/p>\n<p>The best was definitely getting to further my choral experience at University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you find is the most inspirational aspect of choral singing ?<\/strong> Well it reminds me of my wolf roots, and also of the glorious union of everyone joining together in song. It&#8217;s a instrument which is part of everyone and is a sometimes scary thing to share. It also is good for letting off from animal instincts without having to throw mud about!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2013\/11\/20\/in-choir-within-emma-murton\/&amp;t=In-Choir Within: Emma Murton' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=In-Choir Within: Emma Murton%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2013\/11\/20\/in-choir-within-emma-murton\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2013\/11\/20\/in-choir-within-emma-murton\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2013\/11\/20\/in-choir-within-emma-murton\/&amp;title=In-Choir Within: Emma Murton' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2013\/11\/20\/in-choir-within-emma-murton\/&amp;title=In-Choir Within: Emma Murton' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting some of the singers from the University Chamber Choir. This week,\u00a0(hailing stanuchly from Somerset!), soprano\u00a0Emma Murton. How did you get into choral singing ? When being raised by a pack of wolves in the darkest glades of Somerset, a knack for loud howling was useful. Upon returning to the human world this progressed onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15532],"tags":[15537,15529,15538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}