{"id":933,"date":"2018-12-24T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=933"},"modified":"2018-12-24T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T22:37:33","slug":"advent-calendar-day-24-quem-vidistis-pastores-poulenc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/24\/advent-calendar-day-24-quem-vidistis-pastores-poulenc\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 24: Quem Vidistis Pastores &#8211; Poulenc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I am going to tear myself reluctantly out of the baroque era and leap forward into the middle of the 20th century, where we find the French composer, Francis Poulenc bringing a more mysterious and spooky flair to the whole shepherds-abiding-in-the-fields situation.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, we&#8217;ve just had two settings of &#8216;Behold, I bring you glad tidings&#8217;, neither of which started with the all-important &#8216;Fear not!&#8217; part.\u00a0 Listening to this, one gets the impression that Poulenc thought that the fear part of this was quite important &#8211; or at least worth recognising.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than quoting the gospel directly, Poulenc has chosen to make this piece about a conversation between the shepherds and someone who met them shortly after everything happened.\u00a0 The lyrics in English are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Whom did you see, shepherds; speak, tell us: who has appeared on earth?\u00a0 The newborn child we saw, and choirs of angels praising the Lord.\u00a0 Tell of what you saw, and announce Christ&#8217;s birth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Francis Poulenc - Quem Vidistis Pastores\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Krw2mQJ2SJ4?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<pre id=\"the_text_0_1\">\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, I am going to tear myself reluctantly out of the baroque era and leap forward into the middle of the 20th century, where we find the French composer, Francis Poulenc bringing a more mysterious and spooky flair to the whole shepherds-abiding-in-the-fields situation. I mean, we&#8217;ve just had two settings of &#8216;Behold, I bring you [&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":[14,253,595,598],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent-calendar","tag-francis-poulenc","tag-quatre-motets-pour-temps-noel","tag-quem-vidistis-pastores"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}