{"id":675,"date":"2015-12-22T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=675"},"modified":"2015-12-22T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T22:00:20","slug":"advent-calendar-day-24-masters-in-this-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2015\/12\/22\/advent-calendar-day-24-masters-in-this-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 24: Masters in this Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To contrast with the serenity of yesterday&#8217;s carol, I couldn&#8217;t resist sharing this cheerfully energetic carol, with its little social justice message in the chorus.\u00a0 There are many, many versions of this carol out there, and I am decidedly partial to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2vylmhfgkZ8\">Willcocks arrangement<\/a>, which has a deliciously grandiose orchestral part and a totally ridiculous descant.\u00a0 When I was in Germany last year, I heard a version of this in French that was definitely not a Christmas carol (the words I was able to discern suggested more of drinking song, though my vocabulary was not up to figuring out details, especially when sung in a German accent), and indeed the carol is supposedly French in origin, and a dance tune (as is clear from this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PX6BbFDlGLE\">particular version<\/a> of the carol).<\/p>\n<p>My survey of YouTube brought me to this gorgeous arrangement, sung by the Robert Shaw chorale, with entirely different words to the ones I know.\u00a0 While I miss the medieval instruments, it definitely has the required level of jauntiness and cheer!\u00a0 I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Masters in this Hall: Robert Shaw Chorale (with lyrics)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mzr7TafjcDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To contrast with the serenity of yesterday&#8217;s carol, I couldn&#8217;t resist sharing this cheerfully energetic carol, with its little social justice message in the chorus.\u00a0 There are many, many versions of this carol out there, and I am decidedly partial to the Willcocks arrangement, which has a deliciously grandiose orchestral part and a totally ridiculous [&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":[13,14,479,616],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-advent-calendar","tag-masters-in-this-hall","tag-robert-shaw-chorale"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}