{"id":406,"date":"2010-12-12T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=406"},"modified":"2010-12-13T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T12:16:12","slug":"eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2010\/12\/12\/eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Whitacre on British choirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Eric Whitacre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gramophone.co.uk\/features\/focus\/composer-eric-whitacre-on-why-british-choirs-are-best\" target=\"_blank\">writes, in an article in <em>Gramophone<\/em> magazine<\/a>, about his view that British choirs are the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>He narrows it down to four key areas: tuning, tone, sight-reading and knowledge, all combining to make the tradition of British choral singing a world-leader.<\/p>\n<p>See what he says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gramophone.co.uk\/features\/focus\/composer-eric-whitacre-on-why-british-choirs-are-best\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2010\/12\/12\/eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs\/&amp;t=Eric Whitacre on British choirs' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Eric Whitacre on British choirs%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2010\/12\/12\/eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs\/' 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\/2010\/12\/12\/eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs\/' 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\/2010\/12\/12\/eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs\/&amp;title=Eric Whitacre on British choirs' 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\/2010\/12\/12\/eric-whitacre-on-british-choirs\/&amp;title=Eric Whitacre on British choirs' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer Eric Whitacre writes, in an article in Gramophone magazine, about his view that British choirs are the best in the world. He narrows it down to four key areas: tuning, tone, sight-reading and knowledge, all combining to make the tradition of British choral singing a world-leader. See what he says here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1410],"tags":[1490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}