{"id":13580,"date":"2011-05-01T21:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=13580"},"modified":"2017-03-05T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T08:32:49","slug":"royal-wedding-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/01\/royal-wedding-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Wedding Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On FRI evening, I received an SMS from Ling:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Am watching the Royal Wedding on Channel 5 now. =)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px 5px 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"parry\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/parry.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"parry\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/>Ugh. And I was still in school for an event! I did catch the ceremony the next morning though, courtesy of Youtube HD broadcasts. Quite a spectacle, and it looked even better on a large screen Plasma.<\/p>\n<p>What especially interested me though were the music items chosen for the ceremony. Most I recognized, but two I didn\u2019t: the Bridal Processional \u2013 \u2018I was Glad\u2019 by the 19th century English composer Hubert Parry, and the Signing of Registers music, \u2018Blest pair of Sirens\u2019 by the same composer, written for Queen Victoria\u2019s golden jubilee. Absolutely marvelous music, and reminiscent of both Elgar and Brahms\u2019 works! I scouted around at my usual online music stores and found these two pieces only as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Parry-Invocation-Ransom-Lotos-Eaters-Sirens\/dp\/B00117WDT2\/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1304255061&amp;sr=8-16\">larger album<\/a>. Bought the album straight away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On FRI evening, I received an SMS from Ling: Am watching the Royal Wedding on Channel 5 now. =) Ugh. And I was still in school for an event! I did catch the ceremony the next morning though, courtesy of<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/05\/01\/royal-wedding-music\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Royal Wedding Music<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[592],"class_list":["post-13580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news-letters","tag-wedding","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-12-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}