A feast of music and other scrummy things

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Date: 09 July 2007 09:57:15

After months - if not years - of preparation, one of our second altos got married on Saturday. Being a chorister, the normal hymn-sandwich was nowhere near good enough, so we sang our little hearts out ('I was glad' - Parry; 'Ave Maria' - Gounod; 'The strength of God' - Harper). This was followed by a three-course feast, wine and champagne in the Town Hall and an evening of Country Dancing. It's hard to dance on a completely full stomach - and that was before an enormous cake, made entirely of cheese, turned up!

We enjoyed singing the music for the wedding so much that we repeated the repertoire again on Sunday - the first two in the morning and the Harper at evensong. Used to peaceful, restful music whilst taking communion, the congregation may have been taken aback by the blast of Parry, but the comments appeared to be favourable. It helps to have so many in the congregation who are slightly hard-of-hearing.

Now we will have to wait a whole week before the next choir feast.