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Date: 27 November 2007 23:06:00
Very Kingly hymns today, but otherwise a low-key acknowledgment of the feast. Our church does subtle clues rather well....
'Thou wilt keep him' (Wesley) chuntered along quite happily, but we were rather short of Altos this morning. In fact, the much reduced choir stayed reduced this week and the coughs and splutters were much in evidence, except for the wine-fortified anthem. God must have intended his singers to have a drink just before singing - it certainly helps.
We were certainly fortified this evening with an addition of staff to the alto and bass line. In fact, our reader is so keen on the choir that he is to have a 'dressing' on Friday - exchanging his normal black cassock for a choir-uniform red one. We're still working on the vicar..... Festival Evensong was rather under-rehearsed, but we rose to the occasion, with the Smith (five-part) responses, Stanford in C and 'Lift up your heads' (Mathias). Hopefully we shall have some more altos next week - it is hard to sing a double alto part on reduced numbers.