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The End of a Tradition Going Back Hundreds of Years PLUS CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS ASSOCIATION CCOCANEWSLETTER 2019 NO MORE HEAD CHORISTERS! The end of a tradition going back hundreds of years PLUS... • Lost Bible returned to Canterbury after 500 years • Woman rescued from 100ft after scaling Cathedral’s West Tower • The choir record in Abbey Road Studios • A very mixed school music report from the 1940s • John Prebble interviews Dean Robert Willis • and much, much more... draft-1JP.indd 1 10/07/2019 08:19 The Canterbury Old Choristers Association Shop Perfect gifts for you or another OC. Please note that there may be a waiting time of up to six weeks (although the wait will normally be far shorter) after ordering clothing as we order the items from the supplier retrospectively. Items may vary slightly from their description and the images shown (although if this is the case we will notify you in advance). CCOCA Full Zip Outdoor Fleece CCOCA Authentic Zipped Hoodie £27.99 £29.99 CCOCA Enamel Badge CCOCA Centenary Tie £4.99 £14.99 To purchase items please visit the website canterburyoldchoristers.org/shop draft-1JP.indd 2 10/07/2019 08:19 Welcome to the 2019 Canterbury Cathedral Old Choristers Association annual newsletter This year we’re exploring continuity and change We’re also honoured and deeply moved to include a ‘double feature’ on the choir during wartime, thanks Can you ever step in the same river twice? The to contributions from John Ingleton and Donald waters are always changing… Grayston Burgess (who sadly died this year). This was a unique time, when the river diverged between It’s an old philosophical idea (Heraclitus was Cornwall and Canterbury. writing about it around 500 BCE), but it still holds plenty of water when applied to a Cathedral choir. The choir’s repertoire is constantly evolving too. As old choristers spanning decades, we know that In this year’s magazine, three OCs reflect on pieces Canterbury Cathedral Choir is at once centuries-old they have carried with them and Dean Robert Willis, and ever-changing, continually renewed with the ebb in a truly beautiful interview, talks about his lifelong and flow of choristers each year… relationship with choral music. And so it is that editing the CCOCA magazine each Our reunion last year saw the OCs and the current year feels like a celebration of continuity and change choir sing Evensong side by side, followed by a – a tradition that is always evolving. dinner to honour David Flood’s 30 years as Organist and Master of the Choristers. Join us this year on For example: the Head Chorister position, which 14th September for further celebrations of continuity is being discontinued this year. We’ve included a and change. couple of different viewpoints in this edition, and you can be sure it generated a range of reactions John, Alex and TIm around the editorial table! Contents 2019 Reunion page 4 Bible returned after 500 years page 5 No more head choristers page 7 Woman rescued from cathedral tower page 9 Secrets revealed from Black Prince’s shield page 10 Stained glass window 700 years older than previously thought page 12 His Master’s Voice page 13 Notes from Choir House page 15 The choir in wartime page 16 A decidedly mixed school report page 19 Interview with Dean Robert Willis page 20 Obituaries page 22 Forms page 27 3 draft-1JP.indd 3 10/07/2019 08:19 2019 Reunion This year’s reunion will be held on Saturday 14th September. As so many of you have got in contact to say how much you enjoyed singing evensong alongside the choir last year, we have decided to keep that going. So, this year we will meet at 2pm in the Quire for a rehearsal before Evensong. The service begins at 3:15 and afterwards we will hold the AGM in the Lodge at 4:30. Six out of seven ‘95 leavers join former house parents Tim and Allyson and friends for the 2018 Commemoration Reunion Dinner Drinks will be held from 5 onwards in the Water Tower Garden and the BBQ will start at 6. friends to meet up for lunch in your own groups. Just don’t be late for rehearsal at 2pm! As usual we will finish at around 8:30 allowing those with a long drive to get away at a decent time. For Book by returning the form on the back of this everyone else there will be drinks in the pub. newsletter or via the website. We ask everyone singing at Evensong to wear A big thank you to George Inscoe and his group of something identifying you as an Old Chorister. An former choristers who sang exquisitely during the Association tie or a fleece/sweatshirt would be ideal. meal last year. Stanford’s Blue Bird in particular was If you don’t have one, they are all for sale on our stunningly good. website canterburyoldchoristers.org If you are arriving in Canterbury early, we encourage Warning! Sign this form or we may have to delete you! We are asking all members and eligible non-members to go to our website canterburyoldchoristers.org/gdpr and complete the short form to give us permission to stay in touch. Otherwise we may have to remove you from our database. More information about what we do with your data can be found on the website. Alternatively, you can fill in the form on the back page of the newsletter and return it to Chris Gibbs at the address provided. Reminder about fees Can we remind all OCs that the basic membership fee is now £15 per annum. A number of our members still have standing orders in place for the old amount. Please sign up for an online account on the website or complete a new standing order form at the back of the newsletter. Please note. If you do not pay the right amount, you will not be considered a member of the association, but you may still be charged. 4 draft-1JP.indd 4 10/07/2019 08:19 Six out of seven ‘95 leavers join former house parents Tim and Allyson and friends for the 2018 Commemoration Reunion Dinner The Bible is pocket-sized and as such was designed Rare medieval for personal use, possibly whilst travelling. The volume formed part of the collection of the medieval Bible returns home monastery of the Cathedral in the 16th century, but may well have been in Canterbury well before that 500 years after it time. disappeared As the Cathedral’s monastic community was disbanded during the Reformation, the library and book collection of Canterbury Cathedral were rare medieval Bible has been saved for the dispersed with many volumes destroyed or taken Anation and returned to Canterbury Cathedral apart for the reuse of their materials. 500 years after it disappeared from the Cathedral’s monastic book collection at the time of the Exactly what happened to the Lyghfield Bible Reformation. requires further investigation but now it is back to join the very small percentage of the book collection Now known as the Lyghfield Bible, after the 16th that survived, amounting to some 30 volumes from century Cathedral monk who once owned it, the the thousands that were once held. 690-leaf volume was purchased for £100,000 at auction from a private seller at a specialist sale of manuscripts in London in July. The Lyghfield Bible was written in the latter 13th century on high quality parchment or vellum which is almost tissue-like in quality. The fine Latin script and extensive and very fine illumination (decoration) was probably produced in Paris, one of the medieval centres for this type of work. The Lyghfield Bible 5 draft-1JP.indd 5 10/07/2019 08:19 The 2019 reunion is proudly sponsored by the Millers Arms 2 Mill Lane, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2AW 01227 456 057 Serving local mill workers since 1826, the stylish Millers Arms now provides some of Canterbury’s finest food, drink and accommodation. www.millerscanterbury.co.uk draft-1JP.indd 6 10/07/2019 08:19 Cathedral Choir to stop appointing head choristers In a dramatic break from the past, the Receiver General wrote to chorister parents in May to let them know that from September 2019, there will no longer be a head chorister. The shock decision has met with mixed reactions. But what do OCs think? We asked two former choristers for their opinion. If it’s good enough for the Archbishop Head choristers it’s good enough have no place in for the choir this day and age he role of head chorister is something to hile every football team needs a captain, the T which we should all aspire, not only at 12 Wsame is not true of a choir. Traditional wisdom but throughout our lives. The need to achieve and suggests leaders should be confident, outgoing, and succeed is innate within us and something to be assertive. In 2019 we now realise that not everyone encouraged. Our children in particular must be is like that. Being an introvert shouldn’t be a barrier educated from an early age about the benefits of hard to success. work, good behaviour, teamwork and responsibility. To do this they require motivation. Telling a 12-year-old that they’re inferior to their schoolmate distorts the balance of friendship. Most adults can be motivated by either money or Singing in the choir teaches companionship, mutual status. As children, status is the only real currency support, and brotherhood. Creating unnatural and children, and indeed their parents, learn & hierarchies upsets the group dynamic that can lead demonstrate better behaviours when motivated by to tension, envy, and even bullying as youngsters competition than they do by simply taking part.
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