{"id":4017,"date":"2021-12-26T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2021-12-27T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:59:43","slug":"ou-choir-video-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/ou-choir-video-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Strang directs new OU Choir commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2021 has been a desperate year for singers of all kinds, but particularly for choral groups. I have been rehearsing the Open University Choir for most of the year on Zoom, which has been a strange experience because the time lag means no-one can hear anyone else singing. In an attempt to do something creative with these limitations the choir commissioned a new piece, specifically designed to be rehearsed online and recorded individually, which reflects on the choir\u2019s experiences of the pandemic. We then hired someone to produce a video which incorporates images taken by members of the choir during lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View the Video Here &#8211;  or click through to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLwEN7f_90-151WFK6tvblDLOcARa34a9J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube to find out more about the project.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A different kind of living\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLwEN7f_90-151WFK6tvblDLOcARa34a9J\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s also a second video describing how we made \u2018A different kind of living\u2019 which you can watch here: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Making &#039;A different kind of living&#039;.  The Open University Choir 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aiQBwgIK0kU?start=15&#038;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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Strang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 has been a desperate year for singers of all kinds, but particularly for choral groups. I have been rehearsing the Open University Choir for most of the year on Zoom, which has been a strange experience because the time lag means no-one can hear anyone else singing. In an attempt to do something creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}