{"id":253,"date":"2016-05-28T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:42:11","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-king-bladud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/2016\/05\/28\/the-rise-and-fall-of-king-bladud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of King Bladud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new song cycle I&#8217;ve written for soprano, tenor and string quartet, setting words written by Keri Hendy, the current Bard of Bath and tonight it receives its first performance as part of a concert in this year&#8217;s Bath Fringe Festival. Exciting, I have to say, but also scary since the soprano singer has completely lost her voice and I think I shall have to sing in her place! Still, we have a good conductor in the shape of Jeff Boehm from Bath Spa University who will pull us through, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: we had a very good audience and a great welcome for the piece. Very gratifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new song cycle I&#8217;ve written for soprano, tenor and string quartet, setting words written by Keri Hendy, the current Bard of Bath and tonight it receives its first performance as part of a concert in this year&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/2016\/05\/28\/the-rise-and-fall-of-king-bladud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concertina.info\/wordpress4\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}