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 Robert Willis • and much, much more...

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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 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

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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

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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. struggle to adapt.

Artificially suppressing the role of leader within The English public school mentality was born in a peer group or team does neither society or the an age when young men were nurtured for a life individual any good either as children or as adults. in military service. Over time the values of silent stoicism and taking orders without question have If primus inter pares (first among equals) is good been superseded by the values of compassion and enough for the Archbishop within the Anglican collective responsibility. , it should certainly be acceptable within his choirs. The role of head chorister is anachronistic, and it’s time to embrace the future. Rupert Collingwood Alex Lister

What do you think? Let us know on our Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/CanterburyOldChoristers

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draft-1JP.indd 7 10/07/2019 08:19 onto a wooden deck. They continued to reassure the National award woman and had to restrain her until two Kent Police after woman officers arrived and escorted her down to the ground. On Monday at the annual meeting of the Cathedral rescued at cathedral Constables’ Association in Canterbury, Mark (43) and Jim (59) were presented with Royal Humane Society Testimonials on Parchment which are uick-thinking staff at Canterbury Cathedral awarded when “someone has put themselves in Qhave received national awards after they danger to save, or attempt to save, someone else”. rescued a young woman who was clinging precariously to the outside of scaffolding 100 feet Jim said modestly: “I think we both did what any above the ground. other normal person would have done in those circumstances. When I first saw her climbing, The 19-year-old began to scale the construction all sorts of things ran through my mind but I just currently fixed to the cathedral’s West Towers for grabbed my safety equipment and ran up the stairs.” restoration work just after 9am on 14 May 2018. She ignored the warning shouts from staff and to the Mark explained: “I was sitting in a meeting on the horror of those working nearby kept climbing. first floor in Cathedral House directly opposite the scaffolding and saw someone climbing up the She was spotted by Mark Hosea, director of the outside of the scaffold. I ran across and tracked the restoration project, and he raced up the internal young woman up the scaffold from the scaffold scaffolding stairs to reach the woman. He was joined staircase, speaking to her and trying to keep her by Head of Security Jim Morley and the two tried to calm as she continued to climb. It was an instinctive talk to the distressed woman. reaction and I am just relieved that nobody came to any harm.” After the woman let go of the scaffolding and hung on with one hand in windy conditions, the colleagues knew they had to act quickly. They managed to prise open the netting attached to the structure and grabbed the woman’s arms, pulling her to safety

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draft-1JP.indd 8 10/07/2019 08:19 Bob said “It’s very, very exciting, it’s an Shield secrets to be exceptionally rare piece, and as far as we know this is the first time a medieval shield has ever been revealed placed in a CT scanner.

“We’re trying to find out how it’s constructed and ne of Canterbury Cathedral’s most treasured what type of wood it’s made from. In the past there Ohistorical items has had a taste of modern has been conflicting evidence, some say it’s made medicine. from fir, and some believe it’s poplar. We’re also keen to find out if there is any evidence of shield The 14th Century Black Prince’s Shield has been straps. That may well indicate whether or not this subject to a CT scan at Kent and Canterbury was merely a decorative shield or if it was actually Hospital to help experts decide whether it was purely designed for use.” ceremonial or if it was made for battle. Heather Newton, Head of Conservation at The shield hung above the Black Prince’s tomb in Canterbury Cathedral said “With the scan results the Cathedral’s Trinity Chapel for 600 years before we will be able to carry out further research and it was taken down and replaced with a replica in the not only get beneath the surface of the shield but 1950s in an effort to protect the original. also freely rotate and move the shield to carry out a more detailed examination. This would have been As the shield was being prepared for display experts impossible to do with the original shield because it’s had the opportunity to find out more about its so delicate and fragile. history. “There have been some really surprising discoveries, Watching the scan, which took place out of hours, but at this stage more research needs to take place was medieval armour expert Bob Woosnam-Savage, before we can make any categorical statements about Curator of Armour and Edged Weapons at The Royal its original function. What we can say is the shield Armouries, Leeds, the National Museum of Arms appears to be consistent with the manufacturing and Armour. methods of the 14th Century.”

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draft-1JP.indd 9 10/07/2019 08:19 Exciting 12th Researcher Rachel Koopmans from Toronto’s York University said: “Our work was prompted by an century stained early photograph of the window which showed these panels decades before they were thought to glass discovery have been made. Careful analysis has proved that while most of the heads were replaced by a modern restorer, the majority of the glass is original and tained glass panels at Canterbury Cathedral, the panels are genuine medieval compositions. The Spreviously thought to be the work of Victorian date of the panels has been fixed by the distinctive restorers, have been found to date to the late 12th aesthetic style of the glass, which is very similar century, making them the earliest known art works to glass dated to 1180, as well as the date of the depicting pilgrims travelling to Canterbury. completion of the rebuilding of the chapel in which the window is found, 1182-1184.” Researchers have just made the exciting discovery at the beginning of a detailed study of the world- A second medieval panel, also thought to have been renowned Miracle Windows in the Trinity Chapel. a Victorian restoration, depicts pilgrims arriving at An analysis of the panels, currently removed from Canterbury and queueing up to receive the blood the window and in the stained glass conservation and water relic, a much diluted mixture of Becket’s studio for study, proved that they date back to the blood that pilgrims drank in the hope of miraculous 1180s, within 20 years of Thomas Becket’s death healing. and 200 years before Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales. Director of Canterbury’s Stained Glass Studio Leonie Seliger said: “This discovery is terrifically One of the panels shows pilgrims on foot, pilgrims exciting. We are delighted to be able have this on horseback and a disabled pilgrim on crutches on opportunity for close-up analysis of the panels which the road together. The incredible detail includes the has provided us with fresh information such as being bright green and yellow boots of the pilgrims, which able to read the inscriptions which had previously were painted with horizontal stripes and a polka been deemed illegible.” dot decoration. This highly elaborate footwear may have been meant to underline the importance of the pilgrimage.

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draft-1JP.indd 10 10/07/2019 08:19 Memories of music thinking: ‘what an amazing opportunity, I’d love to have a go at that.’ Then in 1999, in my final year, We asked three OCs to tell us about a piece of music the baton was passed on to me and I finally got the from the Choir that they particularly remember… chance to put my stamp on it.

Felix Preston (2013-2018) Not only did I get to sing it in the Cathedral but also in front of the composer himself. The piece was There were so many added to the repertoire list for the American tour pieces I loved as a in 1999 and Anthony Piccolo came to our concert chorister. But few in Philadelphia, where I met him afterwards. The of them truly experience is without doubt one of the most spoke to me the prominent memories of my time as a chorister. way ‘A Hymn to the Virgin’ Henry Bufford (1973-1977) did. The piece was written by Many of you will remember Michael Tippett’s Benjamin Britten ‘Evening Service’, better known by most of us as in 1930 (adjusted in ‘The Yellow Peril’ on account of its custard yellow 1934) but I am always cover – behind which lay one of our more complex surprised at how much I like and challenging repertoire services. it as Britten is not one of my favourite composers. As a prob, I had heard older As a boy soprano your solo voice is layered with boys speak in tremulous the greater choir and alto, tenor and bass soloists, tones when mentioning creating a mysticial air to begin. The call and ‘The Yellow Peril’, so response structure (sung in English and Latin) builds was already a little on rich clashing harmonies, the perfect setting for intimidated on the day mournful sadness and grateful reverie for Mary. when Dr Wickes handed out the banana-hued For me the piece evokes memories of Christmas manuscripts in morning time and was one of the first pieces in which I practice. This is music that became acutely aware of the lyrics whilst singing, can definitely put down the the song’s purity mirroring Mary’s. mighty from their seat and, if we couldn’t get it right, would The final notes trail to nothing and we are left with not lead to any exalting of the humble silence, space and tranquility. I and meek. remember the state of stillness each time I sang It was a chorister’s Voldemort - a potential nemesis this piece. I was lucky for first year Sixteeners, but when the time came, I to have sung this like to think I made the vocal leaps in time and on solo twice. pitch. In place of the rather cacophonous noise that occurred at first rehearsal, there was a very different, Bart Lawrence but incredible sound that resonated through the (1995-1999) Cathedral.

My most It did get easier to sing, with experience, but it’s only memorable piece of looking back now that I marvel at how my 12-year- music would have to old self happily took on this music, with probably be ‘Jesus Walking on the no more than a week’s rehearsal time and sang with Waves’ by Anthony Piccolo. I pride and some expertise. grew up in the choir listening to the likes of John Prebble singing the part of Peter and I remember Indeed my soul did magnify the Lord!

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draft-1JP.indd 11 10/07/2019 08:19 His Master’s Voice 2019

fter our exciting tour in the United States camaraderie. Joseph had twice been our finalist in Athe choir continued in fine form through the the Young Chorister of the Year competition. As summer months. There were plenty of opportunities the new year began, we heard that once again we to look back and compare with our activities just a would have another finalist as Frederick Butler was few weeks earlier! chosen for the final in October in Salford. Frederick performed most beautifully, as we would expect, as The main change to our regular life was the removal our sixth finalist in successive years, but did not win. of the cathedral organ, beginning in May. A “final Nevertheless, he flew the Canterbury flag very high performance” was taken by our excellent PR team for us and thoroughly enjoyed the event itself. which quickly went viral on FB and YouTube, achieving over 50,000 views quite quickly. As As we survive the rest of the year without a regular the organ was dismantled various parts of it were organ the repertoire took a slight turn towards the reclaimed by members of the choir as fascinating unaccompanied pieces and certain works were and useful mementos, so there are a number of left for another time. Christmas was a challenge, people with coffee tables or shelves built from but we gave wonderful performances in different former pieces of organ! circumstances. During this time Adrian Bawtree, our second assistant organist, was enjoying some We said goodbye to Felix, Orlando and Joseph, time on secondment to and since Maurice and Nathaniel had moved to other whilst we missed his contribution to our music pastures earlier in the year. All of those three we had the chance to appreciate the help of Jamie continue at St Edmund’s and maintain their splendid Rogers in that role as he completed his time at the

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draft-1JP.indd 12 10/07/2019 08:19 Royal Academy of Music on the advanced course. colleagues they make up an excellent year 4 team. Jamie has filled that role effortlessly and with great When September 2019 approaches, we will welcome assurance. We are very grateful for all that he has a second pair of twins, but Theo and Jeremy Isom brought us. are not identical so our work to distinguish them is easier! Our pattern of chorister concerts in the diocese has continued and whilst we took one journey out to Amongst the Lay Clerks the team is very content and Suffolk in June, to the home church of our chorister stable. Our one change has been to appoint Adam James Hodgkinson, the rest of our concerts have Southey as an alto in succession to Chris Burn. It been close at hand and very warmly received. has been excellent to welcome Adam to the full- time team having served very well as a deputy for a As a result of a collaboration with the Marlowe while. Theatre and the Cathedral Trust, we created a performance together with the poet Lemn Sissay. As the new choir continues, we look forward to This was a programme of music to surround his new taking part in the service for the Festival of the Sons poem “Cantuarian”. As the poem mentioned the river of the Clergy in St Paul’s in May (the first time Stour together with the cathedral itself, the repertoire since 1998) and the opportunity for a Bursary Fund included some “watery” pieces. I will leave you to concert on 21st June. guess which ones! A generous sponsor then arranged for the whole choir to travel to Abbey Road Studios The work on the organ proceeds at a good pace and to record both the music and the collaboration. as we receive the new console on to its new platform Needless to say, we disrupted the traffic outside to in May, we look forward to the reintroduction of the take the familiar “crossing” photo: there were a few south side to the triforium from June onwards. The more people on the crossing than the four originally! first voicing in September will be very exciting and we all look forward to the opening recital by Thomas We welcomed our first pair of identical twins for Trotter on 2nd May 2020. Do watch out for further a long time as Joshua and Ben Coleman joined news and we will all look forward to welcoming as probationers. As sons of Anna and nephews of as many of you as possible to the reunion on 14th Matthew and James Sutton they are well linked to September. It will be a splendid occasion. the chorister way of life and with their four other David Flood

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draft-1JP.indd 13 10/07/2019 08:19 Notes from Choir House

t has been another exciting year for the XVI, one chorister this year, Mark Lower, has led the team I of the highlights being a recording session at majestically and has been supported brilliantly by Abbey Road studios in London. This was to record Fergus McKie and Christopher Bufford. a track with the Canterbury Poet Laureate Lemn Sissay. The track had previously been heard at a Christmas Boarder Choir was great fun as usual, concert in the cathedral in June 2018, with Lemn with trampolining, ice skating, model making, a trip Sissay accompanying the Choir as he performed his to the Escape Kent and several other activities on the ‘A Poem for Canterbury’. Of course they managed to programme. The Christmas Eve fancy dress dinner fit in a photo of the whole choir on the famous zebra was enjoyed by all, followed by a late night treasure crossing much to the amusement of the tourists. hunt in the dark in the Precincts. This Easter we have go-karting, mountain biking, archery, laser tag and a In September the XVI also sang at the Drumhead giant Easter egg hunt planned. The boys’ favourites Service at the Kent Cricket Spitfire Ground, to mark - Go-Ape and Thorpe Park - as well as the new the centenary of the end of the first World War. It challenge of climbing the O2 in London will come was a privilege for the boys to be able to honour during summer boarder choir. those who served in the First World War and those who serve the country today. The garden at Choir House has been kitted out with outside lighting so the boys can play football outside In October, Frederick Butler, a Year 7 chorister, during the winter months, much to their delight and represented Canterbury Cathedral Choir brilliantly we have received our bank of new computers to by reaching the final of the Young Chorister of the replace those ruined by our flood last year. Year competition. He did himself proud in the final and hopes to be there again next year. We look forward to opening Choir House for those wishing to have a wander around during the CCOCA The XVI started the year with 18 but has grown to day in September. 19 as we were joined in February by Dylan Shearer (a Year 6 pupil from St Edmund’s School) who has Paula Stones been an enthusiastic addition to the team. Our senior 14

draft-1JP.indd 14 10/07/2019 08:19 (Above) The Choir prepare to record at Abbey Road (Below right) The boys try their hand at an Escape (Below left) Candles at Christmas Room

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draft-1JP.indd 15 10/07/2019 08:19 The choir in wartime The Canterbury Experience

John Prebble (1993-97) went to meet John Ingleton (1941-47) and his wife June, to talk about life as a chorister during the war and beyond.

In 2018, I included a simple ‘call out’ in the CCOCA newsletter for any old choristers that were interested in having a conversation with me about their time as a chorister and what they feel it has given them in life. I was really pleased when John Ingleton responded warmly and invited me to visit him and his wife, June, at their beautiful home in Haywards Heath.

I must admit that I was very ignorant of the wartime experiences of the Choir, so I was fascinated to hear the whole story from John. The story of how the boarders, along with other boarding schools in Canterbury, were evacuated to Cornwall in 1940, under the care and leadership of Revd Clive Pare and Dr Gerald Knight – whilst the day boys ‘held the fort’ in Canterbury, including the daily singing of Evensong during these perilous years.

John Ingleton recalls: “Life in wartime Canterbury was anything but dull. The practice room doubled as the sole classroom because the Women’s Voluntary Service had commandeered 18 The Precincts as a clothing store. Joseph Poole, the , trained the choir and initially acted as headmaster. In the classroom Mildred Skinner reigned supreme, working miracles with her lessons in every subject. We both benefited and suffered from her Victorian methods and iron discipline.”

John was very unassuming when it came to talking about how he came to be a chorister:

“The voice trial for entry to the wartime Choir School was a pretty rudimentary affair, bearing little relation, I am sure, to today’s requirements. I doubt I would have passed except for wartime circumstance. From time to time we choristers needed some vocal support and were fortunate that we could rely on The bombed library at Canterbury Alfred Deller to come to our aid – straight from his farm work at Sturry.” 1616

draft-1JP.indd 16 10/07/2019 08:19 Even though I think John is probably being very modest, I wondered to what extent all the day boys might have felt like wartime ‘reserves’, with their boarding counterparts away in Cornwall – even as they maintained the daily singing and worship at the CathedraI. I asked John whether the war was always at the front of their minds during those years:

“No, not really. So much of it was a matter of daily routine. We just carried on, practising, learning, singing and then going home to sleep in a Morrison shelter under the table. Joseph Poole wrote: ‘Being on the brink of eternity made it much more fun being there.’” Thanksgiving Service - Royal visit outside No. 18, 1946 to teach in the first floor staff room. I recall the John went on to recall the most dangerous moment difficult period of the Asian flu epidemic in 1957. of the war in Canterbury – the infamous ‘Baedecker The boys were going down like ninepins. They were Blitz’ on the night of 1 June, 1942, when the excused school activities while they were recovering Luftwaffe descended on Canterbury, carpeting but were unaccountably expected to attend piano the city with bombs. Thanks to the efforts of the lessons. I did not succumb.” emergency services and many civilian volunteers, damage to the Cathedral was restricted to the loss of I was so touched by June and John’s shared the library. I was honoured to share with John how hospitality and interconnected stories. To close our my own Great Grandfather – Evelyn O’Mahony – wonderful conversation, I asked John what he felt had been one of the volunteer ‘fire watchers’, who the Choir had given him in his life that followed: have since been commemorated with the beautiful memorial plaque in the Cathedral, unveiled in 2004. “Firstly, hard work. Life in the war was jolly hard for young boys and we needed a tremendous amount John also reflected on singing particular pieces of of stamina and a good team spirit. Secondly, the music that had been written at the time, notably emphasis on professionalism and precision – the Tippett’s ‘Plebs Angelica’ (1943) and Rubbra’s high standards of the music (which I didn’t always ‘Missa Cantuariensis’ (1945) – both written for the attain!) Thirdly, being able to rough it – the fact Choir – as well as Vaughan Williams’ ‘Valiant for we were all stuck in that practice room, which was Truth’, performed in 1942 at the height of the Blitz not the most congenial environment in which to on Canterbury and other cities. learn. Finally, self-reliance – the ability to rise to the occasion, whatever the circumstances.” “We sang ‘Valiant for Truth’ quite a lot and it sort of rang true. The words at the end are: ‘The trumpets shall sound on the other side’ and that just seemed to be a glimmer of hope for the end of the war.” John Prebble

It was also very special to be able to meet with June Ingleton on my visit. June has many fascinating stories of living in Canterbury during the latter part of the war – at No. 5 Nunnery Fields – and her life intersects with the Choir in many ways. June went on to teach piano at the Choir School for several years in the 1950s, teaching illustrious pupils such as Trevor Pinnock and Roger Vignoles.

“Initially I gave my lessons in the draughty entrance hall of 18 The Precincts but was later promoted John and June Ingleton 17

draft-1JP.indd 17 10/07/2019 08:19 The choir in wartime The Cornwall experience Choristers are inspected by Field Marshall Montgomery

The late Donald Grayston Burgess (1932-2019; campaign of re-allocation of the Canterbury schools Chorister 1940-1946) recounts his wartime was so swiftly and expertly carried out. experiences as a chorister. The name Carne Hotel was perhaps an overstatement I was brought up by my grandparents in the back of its importance, since it was in fact a shop-cum- streets of Canterbury under the watchful eye of bakery owned and run by a Mr and Mrs Inkerman the cathedral’s Bell Harry tower, my father having Carne - a buxom and loveable Cornish lady and died of the then dreaded TB when my brother was her tiny bald-headed husband - with about fourteen four and I was only two. My mother, who inherited rooms above the shop into which we 24 boys, Clive nothing but debts from my father’s Music Shop, Pare, the matron and the cook, managed to squeeze. then ran the gift shop attached to the original Court’s The erstwhile ‘Tea Rooms’ now doubled (or trebled) department store in Burgate Street. The great as dining room, practice-room, and general games- Alfred Deller worked as an assistant in the fabrics room. department of Court’s at the same time - a fact not many people will know! Every morning we were picked up by the ‘Puckey Bus’ driven by a local hero (Mr Puckey) who To make both ends meet my mother sang in concerts had to put up with our antics when we stormed in around Kent until Burgate Street was flattened by with excited chatter, satchels, books and general bombing at the beginning of the war. My brother brouhaha. We were then taken to Carlyon Bay, was already a cathedral chorister. When it was where we joined the other schools for academic decided to evacuate the Choir School alongside lessons and were brought back again to St Blazey the King’s School, Junior King’s School and St in time for Evensong at the local church. While the Edmund’s, I joined it at the tender age of eight day-boys were gallantly keeping the flag flying in and we all found ourselves, my mother included, Canterbury we, in Cornwall, were singing a Boys’ suddenly transported to Cornwall. Voices Evensong every weekday. On Saturdays we joined a select volunteer force The Choir School, under the watchful and resourceful eye of the Headmaster, the Revd Clive Pare and the Organist, Dr Gerald Knight, was housed in the Carne Hotel at St Blazey; the King’s School and the other schools were boarded at the Carlyon Bay and the Bayfordbury Hotels on the coast nearby. By chance, Gerald had been brought up in the next village to St Blazey, where his mother still lived at that time, and I suspect it was through his local knowledge and organising skills that the whole 18

draft-1JP.indd 18 10/07/2019 08:19 of altos, tenors and basses from the Senior King’s occasion for chatting about schoolwork, behaviour, School (mostly ex-choristers) and sang Evensong at games and problems. Clive also got his bus-driver’s the Church of the Good Shepherd at Par, a thriving licence and took over driving the Puckey Bus. By china clay port. this time Mr Puckey had done so well from his daily routine that he was able to buy another bus and so Most Sundays were spent travelling in the valiant fulfil his other duties. Puckey Bus to far off destinations in the Cornish countryside, where we gave recitals, much to the Thus it was out of this highly improbable joy and excitement of the locals who came out in circumstance that we were able to maintain the force to hear the famous choir. Our hosts on these choral discipline and the cathedral repertoire which occasions vied with each other to give us enormous has helped to sustain that great tradition of which we Cornish cream teas, which we tucked into with were privileged to be part. enormous relish known only to ravenous young choristers - and all during wartime when eggs, Donald Grayston Burgess cream, sweets and cake were at a premium! To save money, Clive learned to cut the boys’ hair, an

A CHORISTER’S 1944 Improving, but he does not always stand SCHOOL REPORT well. A flabby posture prevents a good voice production. Theory good. JWP The following are extracts from John Improving, but still falters when called on Ingleton’s school reports – for music – to sing alone. Theory good. JWP from 1941-47. Very much improved ear and tone. He is pulling his weight. Theory good. JWP JWP = Rev Joseph Weston Poole – Precentor, Acting Headmaster, Acting 1945 Choirmaster Voice production improved. He is very GHK = Gerald Knight – Organist and conscientious but I believe has not very Choirmaster much music in him. JWP A hard and conscientious worker. JWP 1941 Works hard and makes the best of his voice. Keen. Has picked up a shocking accent GHK somewhere, which we must try to get rid of. JWP 1946 Hasn’t yet begun to produce his voice Works very hard indeed though the results properly. His ‘ear’ has improved. Theory are not proportionate to the effort made. very fair. JWP GHK Nobody in the choir works harder, but he is 1942 not musically sure of himself so cannot lead His ear is still very inaccurate, and voice others. This may come. GHK production unpleasing. Theory very good. Has made real improvements this term. He JWP is developing ability to lead. GHK Ear still very poor; tone-production also. Theory very good. JWP 1947 Has worked hard and done his utmost. 1943 GHK His ear and voice-production begin to improve. Theory very good. JWP Begins to take his share of the work. Theory good. JWP 19

draft-1JP.indd 19 10/07/2019 08:19 John Prebble met with The Very A tremendous Revd Robert Willis, , to talk about the role that Cathedral music plays in his spiritual exercise life and work.

Do you recall how choral music first came to be would set to music. Subsequently the of part of your life? Salisbury, George Reindorp encouraged me to write a hymn for the festival in 1976. I took my words From my earliest days, music was always there. to C.V. Taylor, who wrote the hymn tune ‘Abbot’s My mother was a singer herself and we would sing Leigh’ and was Precentor at Salisbury at that time. around the piano, as well as singing hymns at church More recently I wrote a carol for the girls’ choir at on Sundays. At Oxford I would trot along to hear Canterbury, in their first carol service alongside the the anthems being sung at the choral colleges, as boys – arranging a tune by George Butterworth. I would also do when being trained as a at So it’s always been a lovely hobby and to feel that Cuddesdon. It was when I joined my words are now in the latest edition of Ancient as the Minor , with a responsibility for singing & Modern and in the forthcoming new edition of the offices, that I was introduced to daily Cathedral the English Hymnal is something that fills me with music. It has been part of my life ever since. humility.

You’ve worked in many different roles and places Many people within the Cathedral community in your career. Has music felt like a constant talk about the daily rhythm and presence of the throughout? music in their lives. How important is this to you?

Wherever you are in the world, within the Anglican I have been a Dean for over 25 years, which means I Communion, the music resonates and travels have listened to Choral Evensong more or less daily with you. I remember waking up one morning in over that time. If I’m not here, I even carry the CD Zanzibar, where I was taking part in an Anglican of the psalms with me for every day of the month. Communion exercise, and I heard an early morning communion going on. The people were singing the To me, the psalms are the absolute bedrock of the Old English Hymnal tune of ‘Beneath the Cross of music. There is the lovely juxtaposition of walking Jesus’ – completely in in Swahili – and it took me over from the Deanery to Matins at 7.30am and straight back to the hymn we sang at home. There is saying the psalms for the morning, before the a kind of ‘hand hold’ of music around the world. subsequent psalms are sung at Evensong.

How did you begin writing hymns yourself? The days have a certain colour to them because you think ‘ah, this is the third evening of the month’, At Salisbury, I wrote some rhymes for fun, which so we will have marvellous psalm 18 sung, with Richard Shephard, who was a Lay Clerk there, hailstones and coals of fire! This continues right 20

draft-1JP.indd 20 10/07/2019 08:19 through to the end of the month, when psalm 150 that he wrote that in the depths of a ship – avoiding lifts the roof, and then psalm 1 comes round again. all the mines and submarines – and yet what you get This to me is immensely satisfying, deeply thought- is the beautiful freshness of what it means for Christ provoking and a tremendous spiritual exercise still. to be born into a world that so needs him.

You are also a lover of opera. I wonder what Probably the thing that thrills me most on Easter sense of connection, or difference, you make morning is the fine Walter Parratt chant to ‘Christ across the various forms of music in your life? our Passover has been sacrificed for us.’ It’s a wonderful, fat chant and we only use it once a year. My relationship with choral music as a whole has Thankfully I get to hear it both at Matins and then developed in different ways throughout my life. At again at the Eucharist! the age of 23 or 24 I was vastly enjoying Wagner’s Ring Cycle in a way that I don’t now. I still love There are times when the anthems of John Rutter – to listen to Richard Strauss, though I’d rather have ‘All things bright and beautiful’ at harvest time or ‘Capriccio’ than ‘Rosenkavalier’ these days. I’m less ‘For the Beauty of the Earth’ on Mothering Sunday – interested now in the big splash of, say, seem like the perfect thing to be singing, the ‘Grand March’ from ‘Aida’…I’ve with the beautiful melodies that he’s done that and it’s spectacular, but it brought forward for well-known words. I doesn’t move me so much now as could go on and on… listening to Warlock’s ‘Bethlehem Down.’ David Flood would always remind us that, even though the music was part There are still parts of opera that can of a daily routine for us, each day do that for me, but they tend to be the would bring a unique combination of more human, conversational parts with visitors to the Cathedral to share in this beautiful melodies that are expressing extraordinary experience. human emotion and the depths of that. I never take any it for granted. Every day, In the Cathedral, there are plenty of there is this great joy of thinking ‘this is a ‘big splashes’ too, like the singing of gift being given to me, to have my prayers just held ‘Jesus Christ is risen today’ on Easter morning, with by the music.’ the trumpets sounding and the Archbishop entering. These are wonderful community exercises, but it’s I am filled with gratitude for our own choir, who sitting in my stall every day that provides a much go about their work with such magnificent quality, more intimate, individual exercise. integrity and cheerfulness. I’m grateful too for the way in which former choristers carry around that I think many people will relate to that sense corpus of music later in life. of balance – between the communal and the individual, the dramatic and the contemplative – As one example, I can think of a former chorister all of which is held by the music. from Salisbury, who was one of the European Peacekeepers in Kosovo. It was Easter Day and he You find it a lot in funerals, when someone is deeply was in a very dangerous situation, with all kinds of loved. There’s a sense that everyone becomes aware refugees desperate for safety. I was in the Deanery – not too consciously – that this is exactly the right in Hereford having breakfast and the telephone rang thing to be singing together at that moment. These and this voice said: “I can’t talk now; I just want to moments take you by surprise, and that’s the best know what you’re singing this morning.” And so I way. told him: “It’s Schubert in G”.

Are there particular pieces or musical moments Even though he wasn’t going to be singing it, the from across the year that you look forward to? thought that this music was being sung somewhere was crucially important to him. There are beautiful times and simple times like Britten’s ‘A Ceremony of Carols’. When you think You come home the better for it, always. 21

draft-1JP.indd 21 10/07/2019 08:19 and Kate. The family moved from Kent to with David’s job in 1966.

David had a long, varied and successful career in The National Provincial, (later to become part of the National Westminster). He held a number of managerial positions where he built long and meaningful friendships with many of his customers. However he truly excelled when working as Personnel Manager for the Romford and Thames area. This was primarily due to his excellent people skills; an ability to engage with, listen to and understand the strengths and weaknesses in people – an ability which extended beyond work into his David Delahay-Jones personal life helping family and friends in the same 1930 – 2019 (Chorister 1940 – 1944) way.

David was born in Newport in Wales in 1930 to Very reluctantly David retired from the bank in George and Nellie; one of four children – Avril, Meg 1990. David and Ann then moved back to Chestfield and his twin brother Julian. His father ran a fashion in Kent, by which time he had his first two house in Berlin from 1914 and both twins inherited grandchildren; Victoria and Benjamin, later followed his dapper sense of dress. by Toby and Oliver.

The family moved to Swalecliffe in 19936 and I was honoured to get to know him well when David and Julian both attended the Canterbury he was appointed as a Trustee of the Clive Pare Cathedral Choir School, where David become head Memorial Fund (CPMF) – the Canterbury Old chorister. In 1944, the boarders were evacuated to Choristers’ charity. I recall his excellent and Cornwall for a year until the end of the war with calm counsel when we would discuss the various the headmaster, The Revd Clive Pare. David often applications to the Charity for grants, as well as the recalled many happy memories of this period both in fund’s financial strategy. It is not least due to this the Precincts and in Cornwall. advice that the charity has such a healthy strong balance sheet today. In 1945, David’s father sadly died when David was only 14. This was an event which subsequently Tragically in 1999 David lost his twin brother Julian forged a strong a family bond, which continued for at the age of 68. This was another event which the rest of his life. affected him greatly for the rest of his life. In retirement David took an active role in the Chestfield Having left school David undertook National Service Society, took French lessons and became a guide in Egypt for two and a half years with his brother at Canterbury Cathedral – a place which was still Julian. Again this was an experience he enjoyed very dear to his heart. He went on to also guide at greatly. On returning back to the UK, the twins Cathedral when David and Ann moved both went to work in the City of London in banking; back to Essex in 2002 to be closer to their children Julian into Barclays and David into The National and grandchildren. Provincial. While playing rugby for the bank, David dislocated his shoulder 9 times and despite advice to Despite sadly becoming ill a couple of years ago, the contrary he refused to stop playing until he was David always remained positive and was always told it was either an operation or the touchline for uncomplaining. He remained at home until the him – an indication of his determined and “stubborn” last week of his life surrounded by his family and nature! listening to the music which he loved. James Finch It was also at this time that David met his future wife Ann. They went on to marry in 1957 and subsequently had three children; Jonathan, Louise 22

draft-1JP.indd 22 10/07/2019 08:19 Peter Smith Germany, Belgium, Austria, France and the UK. 1959-2019 (Chorister 1968-72) In 2017 he returned to the Cathedral as a lay clerk , Peter Smith will be known to many of us , he was finally returning to his beloved Ulverston to be with Head Chorister in 1971–2 the final year of the Choir his family who were with him at the end. School, and in recent years returned to Canterbury to sing as a lay clerk. He was an active member Peter was one of those rare people who had the of CCOCA and like myself, many other members ability to make friends and lasting connections with will have met him at our annual event, as he was those he met, of whatever age and background. gregarious and sociable with an easy talent to make Those of us who met him remember him as friends . intelligent, erudite, kind, witty and an all round great human being. He enjoyed rugby and football, and Born in Ulverston in the Lake District – he attended his knowledge and enthusiasm for music was broad, the Choir School from 1967 to 1972 , his love of so alongside his classical and choral education, he singing having been apparent from an early age, he would consistently high score on the Radion 2’s Pop maintained his passion for music throughout his life, Master Quiz . combining a career as an international teacher, with freelance choral and opera singer throughout the UK As an itinerant musician, Peter made great use of and Europe. Facebook to keep in contact with his friends and family across the world. Towards the end of his life After leaving the Choir School he returned to the he chose to write in this medium to describe his Lake District attending Giggleswick School, and feelings and provide an insightful and often inspiring then studied Law at Cambridge University. In 1992, account of his illness and treatment, which gave he enrolled on a Music Degree Course at York him purpose and meaning as he came to terms with University, combining this with employment as a declining health, whilst being able to communicate song man at and went on to complete and preserve memories of a full life, well lived. Post Graduate Vocal Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, taking his choral singing from His family have maintained his Facebook page, York Minster for . which is a tribute to Peter’s spirit and life for so many of us who knew Peter. He was able to combine his singing with a career as an international teacher of English and business, Henry Bufford which led to singing engagements across Europe – as a freelance opera singer in cities throughout 23

draft-1JP.indd 23 10/07/2019 08:19 Africa for aircrew training. However, it was decided that by now he was too old to train as a fighter pilot and should go back to his ground-based jobs being based in what was then Southern Rhodesia. During a leave break in 1945 he travelled to Northern Rhodesia to help run a Jamboree with other Scouts where Robert Baden-Powell’s son, Peter, was guest of honour.

Returning to Canterbury he attended St. Mildred’s church where he had met Betty before the war. They were married in 1948 in the Cathedral by Dean . He continued working in the family firm of Gibbs and Sons Printers and took over when his father retired. He was also a Cathedral Steward. He kept up his singing, along with Betty, as members of the Canterbury Choral Society. He was Secretary of the CCOCA for some 29 years. Archie Victor Leslie Gibbs 1920-2018 (Chorister 1928-1933) Having been widowed for several years, at the age of 89 he told us that he had had enough of looking Archie Victor Leslie Gibbs was born in Canterbury after himself and asked if would we sell the car and in 1920. He first attended St. Mary Bredin School find a “home” for him. There was a retirement home in Rhodaus Town and sang in St Alphege church in Wingham and he spent 9 happy years there before choir. It was here that the Choir Master, who was passing peacefully away. He is survived by his son the Grammar Master at the Choristers’ School, and daughter-in-law, two grand-children and six suggested that he should apply for the School, which great-grand-children. he duly entered in 1928.

Not long afterwards Miss Skinner arrived and scrapped the French books that they were using and replaced them with others that she was familiar with, but these had stories all about girls which got her off on the wrong foot with the boys straight away!

He left the Choristers’ School in 1933 having “coped” Dean Hewlett Johnson a couple of times. He also joined the Old Choristers’ Association. As soon as he was 14 his father started him off working in the family firm of Gibbs and Sons Printers. This was at 16 Orange St., having previously been in Palace St, now part of the King’s School. Two boys that lived nearby were Scouts, and introduced Victor to Scouting. One of the other apprentices was also a Scout. So began a long association with the Movement, becoming ADC in 1952 and DC in 1956. He was awarded the Medal of Merit in December 1958, and retired in1966.

At the start of the war he joined the RAFVR and was later sent to Kenley and became a storekeeper gaining an intimate knowledge of the various parts of the Hurricane. In 1943 he was posted to South 24

draft-1JP.indd 24 10/07/2019 08:19 Donald Grayston Burgess 1932-2019 (Chorister 1940-1946)

For many here today it is Grayston the musician who will remain etched in the memory. Music was as natural to him as breathing. It was his life blood. His innate musicality and musicianship shone through his performances whether as soloist or conductor. He was also blessed with a rich sense of humour which enabled him to carry his seriousness of purpose with a lightness of touch.

He was one of the most distinguished counter-tenors of his generation and anyone who has heard his recording of Dowland’s In Darkness Let Me Dwell cannot fail to be moved by the poise, the exquisite phrasing, and above all his reverence for the music. As a conductor he had that rare gift of being able to conducted was known and respected internationally. transmit his energy and vision to others whatever Their legacy of over 20 LPs demonstrates his the circumstances. So, whether perched on a table imaginative and sometimes unorthodox programme top conducting some frivolity at the Charterhouse planning which was in many ways ahead of its Christmas party, or directing from the rostrum, his time. His knowledge of Renaissance Music was presence was equally compelling. formidable, yet he wore his scholarship lightly.

The Purcell Consort of Voices which he founded and Following his so-called retirement, he directed his seemingly boundless energy and drive to founding and conducting Choir 2000, a community choir near Cambridge. He made no distinction between professionals and amateurs, and his merciless attention to detail allowed for no compromise. But it worked!

In April 2007 (in preparation for his final concert with them) the members of the choir (not all of whom could read music) opened their scores of Mozart’s ‘Mass in C Minor’ for the first time. Ten weeks later they were performing it with full orchestra at the West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. And what a performance it was! He demanded the impossible, yet somehow, through his unique blend of coaxing, coercion, and humour, and always underpinned by his unshakeable vision of the music, he achieved it.

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When the Dean resigned with unexpected haste, Archbishop Runcie was keen to appoint a successor who understood the cathedral, and would be ready to prepare for the Lambeth Conference in just two years’ time. He had also known John for many years and held him in high regard. Advertisement

John Arthur Simpson was born in 1933, the youngest of three children. His father was a draper, and his mother worked for SPCK. He attended Cathays High School in Cardiff, and for National Service was despatched to Cambridge, to learn Russian, and then The Very Revd to East Berlin as an interpreter. The legacy of this 1922-2019 (Dean of Canterbury 1986-2000) was an enduring love of classical Russian literature.

John Simpson died at home, aged 85, on 24 April, John went up to Keble College, Oxford, in 1953 just short of the 60th anniversary of his ordination as to read modern history. The Warden was Harry priest. Carpenter, soon to be appointed Bishop of Oxford. John’s own vocation to the priesthood was already Among the most challenging services he devised well established, and, on graduation, he went to were those for two Lambeth Conferences, the Clifton Theological College, and was ordained memorial service for those killed when the Herald in 1958. of Free Enterprise capsized at Zeebrugge, and the enthronement of Archbishop Carey. All of In 1980, Robert Runcie was enthroned as these services were marked by dignity, drama and . He was quick to build a simplicity. team of people he knew and trusted, not least in the cathedral, and John was appointed Archdeacon of John’s was the inspiration behind the building of an Canterbury the next year. He and Robert deepened extensive education centre in the precincts, designed their friendship and would take long walks together by Sir William Whitfield. It was a controversial along the Dover cliffs. initiative necessitating the demolition of a canonry and several houses for retired clergy, but John won John was given an honorary doctorate by the the day with his gifts of determination, vision, and University of Kent, and was awarded the OBE soon attention to detail. after his retirement in 2000.

John was no stranger to the cathedral when he was Retirement was spent in France and Folkestone, appointed Dean in 1986. He had been Archdeacon of where John helped in the parish of St Mary and Canterbury and a Residentiary Canon for five years, St Eanswythe. The Simpsons had long been living in what has been described as the Church Francophiles, with a penchant for French wine of England’s most beautiful and historic house. and cuisine. Travel, theatre, and opera were other Among his wider responsibilities was to represent recreations, and John continued to lead pilgrimages the Archbishop at the enthronement of new diocesan to various holy places in Europe. . John is survived by his wife and their three In the cathedral, he was already exercising his children, Rebecca, Damian, and Helen, and four liturgical and artistic flair in helping to create the grandchildren. stunning Altar of the Sword’s Point in the north- Revd John Witheridge 26

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