{"id":1739,"date":"2016-11-04T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:57:50","slug":"in-rehearsal-memorial-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2016\/11\/04\/in-rehearsal-memorial-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"In rehearsal: Memorial Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Cecilian Choir spent this afternoon rehearsing\u00a0<em>Memorial Ground<\/em> over in Studio 3 Gallery, ahead of performance next Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='625' height='382' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/obx2BMuyjaI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The event brings together a new choral piece by the American composer David Lang, together with poetry by Siegfried Sassoon, and also period images drawn from the University&#8217;s Special Collections and Archives. Here, the &#8216;hymn&#8217; of the piece is interspersed with a new poem, <em>The Turtle Dove,<\/em>\u00a0by Nancy Gaffield, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the School of English.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1741\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0886.jpg\" alt=\"img_0886\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0886.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0886-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0886-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0886-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0886-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1742\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0883.jpg\" alt=\"img_0883\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0883.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0883-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0883-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/files\/2016\/11\/IMG_0883-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The performance on <strong>Thursday 10 November<\/strong> at 1.10pm in Studio 3 Gallery, which will be prefaced by a performance of <em>The Last Post<\/em>, is free, and is one of three events taking place across two days as we commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme; more details <a href=\"http:\/\/kent.ac.uk\/music\/whatson.html?tab=november\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2016\/11\/04\/in-rehearsal-memorial-ground\/&amp;t=In rehearsal: Memorial Ground' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=In rehearsal: Memorial Ground%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2016\/11\/04\/in-rehearsal-memorial-ground\/' 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\/2016\/11\/04\/in-rehearsal-memorial-ground\/' 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\/2016\/11\/04\/in-rehearsal-memorial-ground\/&amp;title=In rehearsal: Memorial Ground' 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\/2016\/11\/04\/in-rehearsal-memorial-ground\/&amp;title=In rehearsal: Memorial Ground' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Cecilian Choir spent this afternoon rehearsing\u00a0Memorial Ground over in Studio 3 Gallery, ahead of performance next Thursday. The event brings together a new choral piece by the American composer David Lang, together with poetry by Siegfried Sassoon, and also period images drawn from the University&#8217;s Special Collections and Archives. Here, the &#8216;hymn&#8217; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1406],"tags":[949,165760,165759,84081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}