{"id":4216,"date":"2012-06-02T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T23:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2012-06-02T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T23:55:26","slug":"video-a-toronto-audience-turns-the-tables-on-the-joys-of-a-live-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/06\/02\/video-a-toronto-audience-turns-the-tables-on-the-joys-of-a-live-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A Toronto audience turns the tables on the joys of a live concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first annual Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill memorial concert, which took place over four hours at the Church of St Mary Magdalene this afternoon, was a blast as friends and fans and colleagues took turns performing a little something.<\/p>\n<p>But the real kick came just before intermission, when organizer Larry Beckwith asked for volunteers to form an ad hoc choir. All but a handful of people in the audience got up.<\/p>\n<p>To close of the concert, Beckwith again called for volunteers, this time to sing requests from the <em>Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The nave was virtually empty and the chancel packed as we sight-sang through anthem after anthem, navigating complex harmony and counterpoint, gamely conducted by soprano Teri Dunn.<\/p>\n<p>It generated a soaring natural high that I&#8217;m still feeling two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>As I left the scene, I captured one of the anthems, Richard Farrant&#8217;s <em>Lord, for Thy Tender Mercy&#8217;s Sake<\/em>, on my iPhone:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4rCG2FGg7E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first annual Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill memorial concert, which took place over four hours at the Church of St Mary Magdalene this afternoon, was a blast as friends and fans and colleagues took turns performing a little something. But the real kick came just before intermission, when organizer Larry Beckwith asked for volunteers to form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11,19,36,37,63,66],"tags":[6450,311,581,743,1825,2187,2548,3100],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-160","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}