{"id":364,"date":"2024-04-06T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/?p=364"},"modified":"2024-04-06T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T12:24:33","slug":"resounding-return-to-west-wickham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Resounding return to West Wickham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.croydonmalevoicechoir.co.uk\/images\/St-Francis-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:421px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The choir\u2019s concert on March 9 was at St Francis, West Wickham, always a welcoming venue and memorable for the choir\u2019s affecting WW1 centenary concert there in&nbsp;November 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp;Among a varied repertoire, CMVC repeated two of the pieces from 2018, both in the first half.&nbsp; The first was&nbsp;<em>African Prayer<\/em>, previously sung in tribute to the sacrifices of African nations in WW1.&nbsp; The second was &nbsp;<em>Dona Nobis Pacem<\/em>, &#8220;<em>Give Us Peace<\/em>&#8220;, the round which concluded the 2018 concert.&nbsp; This time the choir performed its three-way split at the end of the first half, choir MD Matthew Quinn conducting with his usual aplomb.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.croydonmalevoicechoir.co.uk\/images\/St-Francis-shantycrew-low.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:356px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nine choir members were deprived of any resting time during the first half.\u00a0 They were the Sandilands Shanty Crew who sang four pieces between the choir\u2019s first two sets, and were rewarded with spirited applause.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choir\u2019s concert on March 9 was at St Francis, West Wickham, always a welcoming venue and memorable for the choir\u2019s affecting WW1 centenary concert there in&nbsp;November 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp;Among a varied repertoire, CMVC repeated two of the pieces from 2018, both in the first half.&nbsp; The first was&nbsp;African Prayer, previously sung in tribute to the sacrifices&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/?p=364\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resounding return to West Wickham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singalongacmvc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}