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Date: 03 November 2004 19:48:00
Heard Gloucester Cathedral Choir sing with the boys and men of Exeter this afternoon. What a sound! Andrew Nethsingha had them caressing the notes of the psalm 'for one day in thy courts is better than a thousand'. Lucien Nethsingha returned to his 'old' cathedral - it was strange to see him, his son Andrew and Andrew Millington all in the same place at the same time.
Fitting for a celebration of S.S. Wesley, the double choir sang 'Ascribe unto the Lord' and the canticles were set to Wesley in E. The voluntary was also by Wesley (well, well!): Introduction and Fugue in C sharp minor.
In the morning we had already heard the Cathedral Girls and men sing 'Wash me throughly' and in the evening I returned to my own choir to sing Wesley's 'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace'. A fitting coincidence (or was it a coincidence?) as Wesley had dedicated our own parish church organ all those years ago. So by the end of today I'm all Wesleyed out!