The Choir

' Chapel Collections during the term, including the Carol Services, amounted to £108 5s. 2d. A donation of £10 was voted by the Chapel Committee to the Christmas Appeal of the National Institute for the Blind; and after paying our share of the cost of printing the Carol Services we were able to send £9 12s. 10d. to the Lord Mayor of York's Christmas Cheer Fund, and £13 9s. 5d. to St. Stephen's Orphanage, York.

It is part of our purpose in the School Chapel to train boys to take their part in the worship of the Church in their own parishes at home. Parishes in this country are increasingly making the Parish Communion the central service of Sunday. This means a Sung Communion at some convenient hour, usually about 9-0 a.m., with all those who are Confirmed making their Communion. So for some years we have had a "Parish Communion" on special occasions, and we had one this term on All Saints' Day. Increased familiarity with this, and especially with Merbecke's setting of the sung parts of the Holy Communion Service, has made this a really fine Act of Worship. Perhaps we are sometimes in need of reminding ourselves that everything that is done in Chapel must firstly be "for the greater glory of God". C.P.

When the Junior School, at the beginning of the Summer Term, started holding its own Chapel services on weekdays, we were faced with an empty row of stalls on each side of the Choir where Olavite trebles, who now came only on Sundays, no longer sat on weekdays. During this last term many of those Olavites have come up into the Senior School and would anyhow have filled many places, but there has been also a welcome tendency for Peterite trebles who had not a regular place in the Sunday Choir to come forward and help on weekdays. Some of these have found their way into the Choir on Sundays by assiduous attendance at practices on the off-chance that a regular member of the Choir would be unable to attend. They are to be thanked for their keenness and congratulated on their tenacity.

This term we are sorry to bid farewell to B. Potter, who came to us with the remains of a fine treble voice from the Minster Choir and who leaves us as a Bass, and D. J. Bird, who has been in the Choir for nine years, a span which cannot often have been exceeded. They carry with them our best wishes.

During the term we sang Stanford's Evening Service in B flat and added, on the first two Sundays in Advent, a Faux Bourdon by Orlando Gibbons, with the School singing the plainsong verses. A new Anthem was sung on the Sunday next before Advent, Vaughan William's "Antiphon". The accompaniment, which is really for full orchestra,

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