{"id":198,"date":"2012-12-20T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-12-20T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T20:30:14","slug":"advent-calendar-day-20-o-magnum-mysterium-byrd-and-lundgren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/20\/advent-calendar-day-20-o-magnum-mysterium-byrd-and-lundgren\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 20: O Magnum Mysterium (Byrd and Lundgren)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something a bit different that I found when I was looking for a version of a piece we sang in choir a few years ago. And yes, this is indeed the piece we sang.\u00a0 But we didn&#8217;t sing it quite like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dsG-etzMdQQ&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]<!--more-->Yes, indeed, what Byrd really needed all along was a bit of jazz piano.\u00a0 Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t quite know what to say about this one, except that I keep expecting it to turn into a Billy Joel song, which is not what I normally expect from my church music.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not quite sure if it&#8217;s Adventy, but it really is gorgeous.\u00a0 And strange.\u00a0 And greatly mysterious, which is rather the point&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think my favourite bit is where the choir randomly comes back in again, just when you&#8217;d forgotten that it wasn&#8217;t Billy Joel at all.\u00a0 Nice.\u00a0 And pleasingly mellow for my tired mood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something a bit different that I found when I was looking for a version of a piece we sang in choir a few years ago. And yes, this is indeed the piece we sang.\u00a0 But we didn&#8217;t sing it quite like this&#8230; [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dsG-etzMdQQ&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]<\/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":[13,135,293,343,771],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-church-music","tag-gustaf-sjokvist-chamber-choir","tag-jan-lundgren","tag-william-byrd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}