{"id":371100,"date":"2025-12-25T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371100\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:28:08","slug":"sunday-miscellany-thursday-25-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/371100\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Miscellany Thursday 25 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of our recent Miscellany concert with the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>New writing:<\/p>\n<p>The Clearout, by Eithne Shortall<\/p>\n<p>Palestrina in Rome, by Joseph O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n<p>All I Want for Christmas, by John Toal<\/p>\n<p>Unexpected Gifts, by Quentin Fottrell<\/p>\n<p>Saint Nick\u2019s in the Liberties, a poem by Rachael Hegarty (from a past Miscellany Live at the NCH)<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Light, Irish Time, by Chikere Ohoka<\/p>\n<p>Music: <\/p>\n<p>Joni Mitchell\u2019s River, arranged by Michael Keeney and performed by Lisa Lambe and the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>Palestrina\u2019s Alla Riva del Tebro, sung by the Palestrina Choir, directed by Bl\u00e1naid Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Sparkling Sea, composed and performed by Naomi Berrill, featuring Matthew Berrill on clarinet; the arrangement for orchestra was also by Matthew Berrill<\/p>\n<p>George Michael\u2019s Last Christmas, arranged by Andy O\u2019Callaghan and sung by Lisa Lambe with the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Maloney<\/p>\n<p>And, from a past Miscellany Live at the Wexford Opera House, The Wexford Carol, arranged by Damien Gallagher and performed by Sarah Shine with the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra conducted by David Brophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part 2 of our recent Miscellany concert with the RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra New writing: The Clearout, by Eithne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-371100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}