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Date: 08 September 2008 19:59:58
Holidays are all very well, but you can't beat your own choir in your own church.
After a summer of listening to others (Exon Singers at Tavistock, RSCM Summer School choir at Durham Cathedral) we returned in good voice and full of enthusiasm ready for a busy term. Over the summer another alto has produced another baby - in these days of boys being hesitant to join church choirs, we have to do a spot of self-recruiting. Another seven years and he should be good and ready.
First off was another Scottish wedding (why do we get so many Scottish weddings in Creamtealand?) with a graphic description - waaay too much information - from one of the sopranos as to what, exactly, the bridegroom was, or more to the point wasn't, wearing under his kilt. 'The Lord bless you and keep you' (Rutter) was the anthem we thought the bride had chosen - too late we realised that was intended for another wedding later in the year, but it did just as well for this one, and no-one complained.
Sunday saw almost full choir stalls for the morning Eucharist ('View me Lord', Lloyd) and Evensong ('Teach me O Lord', Attwood, plus the Sweeney responses). We remembered to look carefully at the conductor - I wonder how long that will last. It's good to be back!