{"id":6083,"date":"2006-11-23T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/2006\/11\/strength-in-the-face-of-frailty\/"},"modified":"2006-11-23T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T11:01:10","slug":"strength-in-the-face-of-frailty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/11\/23\/strength-in-the-face-of-frailty\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength in the face of frailty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see the documentary on Channel 4 last night about the <a title=\"Young at Heart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youngatheartchorus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Young at Heart<\/a> Chorus? It isn&#8217;t often that Hels and I sit to watch television together, but this was an outstanding documentary about an amazing project with a splendid bunch of people that had us riveted, alternately laughing and crying. There is a planned DVD release. The part with Fred Knittle, given two years to live just over two years previously, carrying his oxygen supply on stage as he sang Coldplay&#8217;s Fix You as a solo performance after his duet partner,\u00a0Joe Benoit, had died just a few days before will bring a lump to your throat.<\/p>\n<p>The most impresive character is Bob Cilman, the director. Coaxing, encouraging and, at times, herding this group of wilful octagenarians into performing a stage set that has travelled the world is a great feat of determination &#8211; the fact that the performers derive more from it than the audience is not lost on the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you see the documentary on Channel 4 last night about the Young at Heart Chorus? It isn&#8217;t often that Hels and I sit to watch television together, but this was an outstanding documentary about an amazing project with a splendid bunch of people that had us riveted, alternately laughing and crying. There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture","category-music-and-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}