The faithful few fought bravely

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Date: 30 May 2005 08:42:25

This weekend was the wedding of one of our very welcome occasional sopranos. That, combined with half-term, meant almost no choir left to hold the fort at home. Choirpractice was cancelled - for only the second time in living memory - and those who didn't beat a path to the vestry door out of long habit, only to stand around in puzzlement, enjoyed a welcome evening off.
A very young, small choir turned up on Sunday - four trebles, two altos, two tenors and three basses, mostly all under the age of 20. The anthem was the appropriately-named, 'Lord, give me faith' by Robson. 'And childlike go where thou would'st have me go' sounded particularly appropriate sung by quiet young voices.

Only 9 choir members at evensong - the smallest choir I've ever seen at our church. No anthem tonight - the scheduled anthem, 'Be strong and of good courage' would have sounded rather weedy with such low numbers. We still managed four-part harmony in all the hymns, responses, canticles and psalm, though. The congregation looked quite large for a change, so the overall numbers in church were no different than usual. They were just sitting in a different place.....