{"id":1182,"date":"2022-02-22T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2022-02-22T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:06:12","slug":"singing-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2022\/02\/singing-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing This Friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">I&#8217;ll\u00a0<em>hopefully<\/em>\u00a0be singing at the Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Society of Houston&#8217;s 7th Annual Gala, featuring the Auction of Arias, 7pm Friday, February 25th, at the Junior League of Houston. The evening will include passed hors-d\u2019oeuvres, a three-course dinner, and open bar. In addition to the Auction of Arias, there will also be a silent auction of great items and experiences.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/e3c40d11-ff53-47e1-bbe1-01e555e55272\" alt=\"mime-attachment.jpg\"\/><br \/>Above I said &#8220;hopefully&#8221; because the attendees will be responsible for selecting the music for the evening.\u00a0\u00a0During each course, we will auction off the opportunity to select\u00a0songs to be performed from that course&#8217;s &#8220;Song Menu.&#8221; The Song Menu for the evening will include pieces from the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire as well as other opera and musical theater numbers. I&#8217;ll be offering:<br \/> \u2022 &#8220;Oh, what a beautiful mornin\u2019&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Oklahoma!<\/em><br \/> \u2022 &#8220;When I was a lad&#8221; from\u00a0<em>HMS Pinafore<\/em><br \/> \u2022 &#8220;I am the very model of a modern major-general&#8221;\u00a0from\u00a0<em>The Pirates of Penzance<\/em><br \/> \u2022 \u00a0and &#8220;Ein M\u00e4dchen oder Weibchen&#8221; from\u00a0<em>Die Zauberflote<\/em>.<br \/>This is our biggest fundraiser for the year, helping us to pay for the summer show and our scholarship programs. The evening promises to be a lot of fun, so I do hope you can join us. Tickets start at $100, and can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/joewhite.com\/cgi-bin\/dada\/mail.cgi\/r\/joesgigs\/301713042836\/12e143aa5226f845938829eba564457e\/\">purchased online here<\/a>\u00a0or calling 281-724-8363.<br \/>Looking forward to seeing (and singing for?) you!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll\u00a0hopefully\u00a0be singing at the Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Society of Houston&#8217;s 7th Annual Gala, featuring the Auction of Arias, 7pm Friday, February 25th, at the Junior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-j4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}