{"id":854,"date":"2018-06-15T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:48:30","slug":"holloway-childrens-choir-summer-concert-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Holloway Children&#8217;s Choir Summer Concert (July 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My children&#8217;s choir has been going well this semester.\u00a0 I founded it in February after the Tianjin Grand Theatre&#8217;s Mulan Children&#8217;s Choir ceased to exist (see here: <a href=\"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=789\">http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=789<\/a>), and the choir is going from strength to strength.\u00a0 I absolutely couldn&#8217;t have done it without Zhou Ting Ting, and it&#8217;s been a huge learning experience for us.<\/p>\n<p>July &#8217;18 update: as a taster, you can see our first ever performance as a choir, somewhat unusually, at a celebration of Tianjin couple&#8217;s Golden wedding anniversary:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dress rehearsal:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_59971\"  width=\"810\" height=\"608\"  data-origwidth=\"810\" data-origheight=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KGymSGVx20E?enablejsapi=1&origin=http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The performance was even better, but ruined by the sound guy, who kept 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users:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/v.youku.com\/v_show\/id_XMzcwNDkxMzA5Ng==.html<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/v.youku.com\/v_show\/id_XMzcwNDkxMzE1Mg==.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our first concert is set for July, in the theatre of the beautiful Wellington International School in Tianjin.\u00a0 Alongside the choral suite from my own &#8220;opera for children&#8217;s choir&#8221; <em>Cao Chong Weighs the Elephant <\/em>(see here: <a href=\"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=519\">http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=519<\/a>), and my setting of a re-worked Gerald Manley Hopkins poem, <em>Pied Beauty <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=517\">http:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=517<\/a>), are pieces by Faur\u00e9, Poston, Kodaly, Vaughan Williams, Bach, Mendelssohn, Britten, Li Shutong, Huangzi and Wang Liping.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-858\" 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