{"id":1756,"date":"2020-12-24T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:43:49","slug":"a-frosty-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-frosty-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"A Frosty Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like a good time to wish everyone a Happy Christmas &#8211; within whatever restrictions that you find yourselves at the moment. I think that most people will find Christmas 2020 to be rather different from any previous year!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today we have a setting by Gerald Finzi of Robert Bridges poem &#8220;Noel: Christmas Eve 1913&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This takes me back to 1979 &#8211; I didn&#8217;t know this piece before it was programmed for the Christmas concert that year. It has become one of the &#8216;fixtures&#8217; in my listening since then. It is music that is certainly evocative. Hope you enjoy it, whether you have heard it before or not.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pLnol0j0uvw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerald Finzi : In Terra Pax<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLnol0j0uvw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I decided to share In Terra Pax today it meant that there was certainly going to be two shares &#8211; this is a different setting of the same poem &#8211; and I would often listen to these two one after the other &#8211; usually the Finzi would be first &#8211; because they both conjure up particular images of the season.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very different version &#8211; perhaps some will find it more to their taste &#8211; I don&#8217;t know &#8211; I like both \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6gaa9vf-4qw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Denver : Noel &#8211; Christmas Eve, 1913<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gaa9vf-4qw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like a good time to wish everyone a Happy Christmas &#8211; within whatever restrictions that you find yourselves at the moment. I think that most people will find Christmas 2020 to be rather different from any previous year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[77,100,105,118],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-choral","tag-orchestral","tag-religious","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}