{"id":1685,"date":"2025-12-13T11:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:01:35","slug":"final-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/final-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Recital"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-block_36ba38489fcc844ce64fee38fc7dd598 class=\"post-page-banner align\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TimothParsonsChoirQuire.jpg\n   )\">\n  <div class=\"container content-container text-center d-flex align-items-center flex-column justify-content-center\">\n    <h1 class=\"text-white\">\n      Final Recital\n    <\/h1>\n    <h2 class=\"h3 text-white\"><time class=\"dt-published\" datetime=\"2025-12-13T11:39:34+00:00\">\n      13 December 2025\n    <\/time><\/h2>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Lieutenant, Mary Ellis, represented HM Lord Lieutenant at performance of Messiaen&#8217;s Nativite du Signeur by Timothy Parsons, Director of Music.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the final public organ recital before the Organ is dismantled in January for a total rebuild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014096-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014096-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014096-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014096-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014096-1536x1041.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014096-2048x1389.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mary Ellis, Deputy Lieutenant, (fourth from the left) with memembers of the Appeal Committee and the Dean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Timothy Parsons will play the Nativite du Signeur on the fully rebuilt and renovated Organ in two year&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2075Also attending the recital were the Mayor and Mayoress of Wells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014167-1024x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014167-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014167-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014167-768x316.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014167-1536x632.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wellsfriends.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1000014167-2048x843.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic recital before the Organ is dismantled in January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grand-organ-appeal","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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