The Chapel

For the Choir the Christmas Term has been full of pleasant activity; but "their reward is with them and their work before them", and we have already started practising the music for next term's Epiphany service at York Minster.

The new term started off with a lack of tenors in the Choir and we were glad to welcome both Clemons and Herring. Soon it was apparent that there was something in the air, and it was not long before the news of our impending St. Paul's Cathedral trip was broken to us. Several extra rehearsals were called for. The Choir responded nobly to this strain imposed upon it with the result that the singing at St. Paul's was almost flawless; but this will, of course, be described separately.

The improvement in the standard of singing continued, and this seems to have been infused into the congregation, for visitors to Sunday Chapel have remarked upon the clearness of diction in the Responses.

The end of the term seemed to arrive all too quickly, but there was time for the School to have a preview of the "Gloria in excelsis" by Weelkes, which will be sung at the Epiphany service at the Minster.

Finally we must thank Herring for his services to the Choir for, although he has only been with us for a short term, his work has been invaluable, and we wish him "Good luck" for the future.

The following anthems and services were sung during the term :-

"Almighty God who hast us brought"—Ford. "Thou visitest the earth"—Greene. "Turn thy face"—Attwood. "Give us the wings of faith"—Bullock. "0 come ye servants of the Lord"—Tye. "What are these"—Gray. "Non nobis Domine"—Quilter. "Lord, for thy tender mercies' sake"—Farrant. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat—Stanford. Service for Holy Communion—Merbecke. "Gloria in excelsis"—Weelkes.

THE CHOIR AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

On Wednesday, 1 lth November, the Choir had the pleasure and privilege of singing Evensong in St. Paul's Cathedral, being one of the choirs invited for this purpose while the Cathedral choir was in America.

Having dispersed into pre-arranged groups at King's Cross, we met again in time for a rehearsal at 2 o'clock in St. Paul's. During this rehearsal we were very pleased that the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. W. R. Matthews, came to welcome us. The Acting Succentor, the Rev. W. N. Atkins, was most helpful to us in our rehearsal, and afterwards, at his kind invitation, a number of the party climbed the Cathedral's dome, some even enjoying peering down to the nave from some 350 feet above.