{"id":335,"date":"2012-12-24T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T05:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.LorianBartleStrings.com\/?p=335"},"modified":"2013-10-25T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T03:29:28","slug":"335","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Solo Performances in Christmas Eve Music Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n--><\/style>\n<p>Tonight, I played Laurindo Almeida&#8217;s classical guitar arrangement of Bach&#8217;s Air on the G String and Luis de Mil\u00e1n&#8217;s Pavane III at the Jefferson Unitarian Church Christmastide Music Service. The Pavane was originally written for the vihuela, a Renaissance instrument that closely resembles the guitar.\u00a0 Air on a G String is an arrangement by German violinist August Wilhelm (1845-1908) of the second movement of Bach&#8217;s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1068.\u00a0 Both pieces are compact, highly expressive musical works that are adaptable to being performed in a variety of settings.<\/p>\n<p>During the Christmas Eve service that followed the Christmastide Music service, I sang with the Jefferson Unitarian Church Choir &#8220;Deep Peace,&#8221; a mysterious, ethereal choral work by Bill Douglas.\u00a0 The text of this work is part of a traditional Gaelic blessing.\u00a0 The service concluded with every member of the congregation holding a candle in the darkened chapel while singing &#8220;Silent Night.&#8221;\u00a0 Upon exiting the church, I was greeted by a thick, fresh layer of snow that heralded the arrival of Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I played Laurindo Almeida&#8217;s classical guitar arrangement of Bach&#8217;s Air on the G String and Luis de Mil\u00e1n&#8217;s Pavane III at the Jefferson Unitarian Church Christmastide Music Service. The Pavane was originally written for the vihuela, a Renaissance instrument &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/?p=335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartleguitarstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}