{"id":2193,"date":"2010-12-22T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2010-12-22T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:36:15","slug":"choral-conductor-john-alldis-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/12\/choral-conductor-john-alldis-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Choral conductor John Alldis dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Alldis<\/strong>, who conducted the choir on Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Atom Heart Mother&#8221; (1970), died Monday. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>Alldis was the man who stepped in for composer <strong>Ron Geesin<\/strong>, when he nearly came to blows with a horn player while recording &#8220;Atom Heart Mother.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/pink-floyd\/interviews\/ron-geesin.php\">Hear Geesin&#8217;s account of the incident<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Alldis&#8217;s work with Floyd was a tiny sliver of his long career, which began with The John Alldis Choir in 1962.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/music-obituaries\/8217729\/John-Alldis.html\">Read more at the Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Alldis, who conducted the choir on Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Atom Heart Mother&#8221; (1970), died Monday. He was 81. Alldis was the man who stepped in for composer Ron Geesin, when he nearly came to blows with a horn player while recording &#8220;Atom Heart Mother.&#8221; (Hear Geesin&#8217;s account of the incident.) Alldis&#8217;s work with Floyd was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}