{"id":166,"date":"2012-12-10T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-12-10T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:30:36","slug":"advent-calendar-day-10-prepare-ye-the-way-michael-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/10\/advent-calendar-day-10-prepare-ye-the-way-michael-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 10: Prepare Ye The Way (Michael Wise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, now I am absolutely cheating by looking up lists of Advent music and seeing what I like.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not really cheating in this case, because while I haven&#8217;t actually sung this particular verse anthem before, I was looking for a different Michael Wise anthem for Advent quite recently (this was the path that led me into the pit of <a title=\"Low humour in high style: Once, Twice, Thrice I Julia Try\u2019d (Purcell)\" href=\"http:\/\/catesings.org\/low-humour-in-high-style-once-twice-thrice-i-julia-tryd-purcell\/\">smutty Elizabethan Madrigals<\/a> a couple of Sundays ago).\u00a0 So when I saw that he had written another Advent anthem, I braved YouTube again, to see if I could avoid the smut, and found this.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z4ZeM1KLMlM?rel=0]<!--more-->Isn&#8217;t it gorgeous?\u00a0 I especially love that bass solo on &#8220;Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made LOW&#8221;.\u00a0 Very low, for he is a BASS.\u00a0 I do like a good bass voice&#8230;\u00a0 And then there&#8217;s that lovely part where the two sopranos are trading solos on &#8220;And the voice said &#8216;Cry&#8217; \/ What shall I cry?&#8221;.\u00a0 And &#8220;Behold thy God&#8221; is just stunning.\u00a0 Also, I think we have half the lyrics of The Messiah condensed into one verse anthem here.<\/p>\n<p>Drat, I really want to sing this one now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I&#8217;m afraid I don&#8217;t have anything else to add to this &#8211; I&#8217;m a big fan of verse anthems, and the different textures you get from having soloists and combinations of soloists alternating with choir, but I&#8217;m mostly just sitting here going, wow, this is gorgeous, and not getting any further.\u00a0 Does anything more really need to be said?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, now I am absolutely cheating by looking up lists of Advent music and seeing what I like.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not really cheating in this case, because while I haven&#8217;t actually sung this particular verse anthem before, I was looking for a different Michael Wise anthem for Advent quite recently (this was the path that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,135,494,588,662],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-church-music","tag-michael-wise","tag-prepare-ye-the-way-of-the-lord","tag-st-johns-college-choir-cambridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}