{"id":826,"date":"2011-12-21T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=826"},"modified":"2011-12-21T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:38:29","slug":"advent-calendar-day-21-thou-knowest-lord-the-secrets-of-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2011\/12\/21\/advent-calendar-day-21-thou-knowest-lord-the-secrets-of-our-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 21 &#8211; Thou Knowest Lord the Secrets of Our Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to give you Josquin Des Prez today (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=DOcj5Rg6x7k\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">O Virgo Prudentissima<\/a>), and I\u00a0actually got as far as finding the recording and putting it in here, but then found that I\u00a0had absolutely nothing to say about it except that it is pretty (which it is), and that you should certainly listen to it (which you should).<\/p>\n<p>So instead we are having more funereal music today, but since I\u00a0have it on excellent authority that Advent is also a time for contemplating our ends, I&#8217;m not going to feel guilty about this.\u00a0 We can have Rorate Coeli tomorrow.\u00a0 This fits my mood today.<\/p>\n<p>We sang this for the first time right before the start of Advent this year, possibly because our choir director shares the views of Tree on this subject.\u00a0 We rehearse most of our music twice before performing it, and at the second rehearsal we learned that a member of the congregation had died quite suddenly that day &#8211; one of those women who volunteers all over the place and organises readings and is on the tea roster and the flower roster and the church council and the English conversation group, and so forth.\u00a0 Suddenly, the piece was very appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the evening figuring out sheet music and organising a time to tape an accompaniment for the songs I\u00a0will be singing at Nonno&#8217;s funeral.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t be singing this, but it&#8217;s what&#8217;s in my head right now.\u00a0 And it is, I\u00a0think, a beautiful piece of music.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5tEiPKy-1kw&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to give you Josquin Des Prez today (O Virgo Prudentissima), and I\u00a0actually got as far as finding the recording and putting it in here, but then found that I\u00a0had absolutely nothing to say about it except that it is pretty (which it is), and that you should certainly listen to it (which [&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":[14,90,312,727],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent-calendar","tag-cambridge-singers","tag-henry-purcell","tag-thou-knowest-lord-the-secrets-of-our-hearts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}