From the Chaplain This Trinity term felt longer than most, but there were two reasons why that was a cause for celebration. One was that on Friday of 9th week the College was transformed for a spectacularly successful Ball, organised by a committee with whom it was a real pleasure to work throughout the year. The other was that choir members, most of whom had stayed on for the Ball, remained in College until the middle of 10th week to record some Advent music, to be released later this year on CD. The chapel choir continues to go from strength to strength, benefitting greatly from the musical coaching and direction of Giles Underwood, and we hope that this CD will be the first of several in which the choir will sing its way through the liturgical year. As always, we are sorry to say goodbye to a large number of choir leavers, all of whom we wish well for the future: Sarah Boyd, Leonora Campbell, Alexander Coker, Amelia Gall, Emelia Lavender, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Grace Mallon, Antonia Perna, Catherine Scanlon, Charles Smye, William Yeldham, Minh Tran, and also our organ Scholar, Christopher Breeze. We hope, however, that they will have other opportunities to sing again in the chapel: we have now had almost enough Gaudies at which a scratch choir has sung that we may refer to this as a College tradition, and we still intend to hold a special Evensong in which we will invite former choir members (and others) to join the current choir in a musical celebration of the life of the chapel; more details will follow, along with a date for our inaugural recital on the organ. (Yes – it will happen!) Our regular pattern of worship has stayed the same, with Choral Evensong or an occasional sung eucharist on Sunday evenings, and daily prayer on midweek mornings, with special occasions such as the Advent and Christmas Carol Services. In addition we have had joint sung eucharists with Wadham and St Edmund Hall for Ash Wednesday (at the University Church) and for Ascension Day (this year at Univ), as well as our now annual joint Evensong with Teddy Hall. The Revd Dr Anne Noble (nÊe Thomas) was the only Old Member to preach at Evensong this year, but another Old Member, the Revd Stephen Coles addressed those who gathered at a memorial service to celebrate the life of former Fellow, Professor Peter Bayley. Emeritus Fellow Dr Alexander (Sandy) Murray preached at our annual service of Thanksgiving for our Founder and Benefactors, and our senior lecturer in Music, Dr Matthew Cheung-Salisbury (recently appointed as National Liturgy and Worship Adviser to the Church of England) preached on the place of music in worship, which was also the theme of a Choral Evensong in Trinity Term that opened the College Arts Week. It is always a pleasure to welcome Old Members to services in the chapel, and I look forward to seeing you and your guests when you are able to attend. Dr Andrew Gregory
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