{"id":165,"date":"2012-01-06T10:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T10:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmsclients.co.uk\/hls\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:32:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:32:38","slug":"choir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?page_id=165","title":{"rendered":"Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span class=\"s11\"><span class=\"s11\">The Parish Church of St Michael &amp; All Angels has enjoyed a long and varied history of liturgical music.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s11\">The <a title=\"Choir Practice\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/church-life\/regular-activities\/music\/choir-practice\">choir practice<\/a> on Thursdays\u00a06.00pm &#8211;\u00a07.30pm, sing<\/span><span class=\"s11\">ing<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0at our Sunday Eucharist 10<\/span><span class=\"s11\">am<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0and our evening services at 6pm.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s11\">All are welcome to join us.<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s11\">Choral Evensong is on the 2nd<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0Sunday of the month.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s11\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4783 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D95962CA-EF8B-439E-B810-947DE87391E4-300x257.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D95962CA-EF8B-439E-B810-947DE87391E4-300x257.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D95962CA-EF8B-439E-B810-947DE87391E4-350x300.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D95962CA-EF8B-439E-B810-947DE87391E4.jpeg 720w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/257;\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span class=\"s11\"><span class=\"s11\"><br \/>\nThere has been an organ to lead the music since at least 1600, shortly after the time of Berna<\/span><span class=\"s11\">rd Gilpin. I<\/span><span class=\"s11\">t is reputed that our church was the first in the Diocese to introduce a surplice choir since the Reformation.<\/span>The choir is made up of a group men and wome<\/span><span class=\"s11\">n who lead the singing in our services and take\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s11\">an active<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0part<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0in our<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0church community.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"s4\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><\/h3>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span class=\"s11\">The\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s11\">choir is affiliated to the <a title=\"The Royal School of Church Music\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rscm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal School of Church Music<\/a> and take<\/span><span class=\"s11\">\u00a0part in their events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\">For further details contact the Director of Music George Peebles 584 1628. Email <a title=\"Email George\" href=\"mailto:georgepeebles@talktalk.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">georgepeebles@talktalk.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parish Church of St Michael &amp; All Angels has enjoyed a long and varied history of liturgical music. &nbsp; The choir practice on Thursdays\u00a06.00pm &#8211;\u00a07.30pm, singing\u00a0at our Sunday Eucharist 10am\u00a0and our evening services at 6pm.\u00a0All are welcome to join &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/?page_id=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions\/4784"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaels-hls.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}