{"id":254,"date":"2021-10-16T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:38:05","slug":"conductors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/?page_id=254","title":{"rendered":"Conductors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The men with the little white stick<\/strong><br>and so far, it just happens that they have all been men<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><em>Conductor<\/em><\/td><td><em>First concert<\/em><\/td><td><em>Last concert<\/em><\/td><td><em>Number of concerts<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Roger Golder<\/strong><\/td><td>9th December 1966<\/td><td>7th February 1969<\/td><td>4<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>James Eastham<\/strong><\/td><td>12th June 1970<\/td><td>18th December 1976<\/td><td>25<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Robert Hull<\/strong><\/td><td>18th November 1977<\/td><td>19th May 1979<\/td><td>9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Martin Merry<\/strong><\/td><td>24th November 1979<\/td><td>9th May 1981<\/td><td>8<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Martin Bussey<\/strong><\/td><td>14th November 1981<\/td><td>19th June 1989<\/td><td>34<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Stephen Threlfall<\/strong><\/td><td>4th October 1989<\/td><td>9th March 1991<\/td><td>8<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>David Holroyd<\/strong><\/td><td>18th May 1991<\/td><td><\/td><td>lots &#8230; and counting (&lt;110)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was quite something to realise that the March concert at The Phil (2015?) was probably my 100th with FCS.  And that I have now conducted more concerts than all my predecessors put together.  Also a bit scary.<br>I guess there&#8217;s two ways of looking at this: it&#8217;s time for a change, OR, if it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it!<br>And for what it&#8217;s worth &#8211; these days I don&#8217;t bother with a baton, or even a little white stick &#8230; <\/p><cite>dh<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men with the little white stickand so far, it just happens that they have all been men Conductor First concert Last concert Number of concerts Roger Golder 9th December 1966 7th February 1969 4 James Eastham 12th June 1970&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":250,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-254","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254\/revisions\/316"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}