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Friends of St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir Newsletter Summer 2018 Friends of St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir Newsletter Summer 2018 Introduction This is the third edition of the FOCC newsletter, and I hope that you will enjoy the variety of news and articles featured in it. The FOCC has had a busy year fundraising to support the Cathedral Choir. The year’s events have included Starry Night in May 2017; the barbecue on the Garth at the end of the Summer term; sponsored walks in September 2017 and April 2018; and St Edmundsbury Singers, Evensong Norwich Cathedral – celebrating the Quiz in February 2018. 30 years in 2018. The monthly Sunday morning cake Funds raised this year have been used stall has continued, along with the to support the production of a new 500 Club, both of which make a Choir CD, the purchase of new hymn regular and significant contribution books for the Choir and to contribute to our revenue target. Throughout to the costs of the Choir’s tour to the year, the FOCC provides a Portugal in April 2018. cushion hire service at Cathedral events and concerts; a drinks service These events require the time, energy is also organised at major Cathedral and commitment of all those who concerts and events, and also for the form the FOCC committee, along Bury Concert Club series held at the with the support of other friends, Unitarian Meeting House. choristers’ families, vergers, the Music Department and the wider Cathedral community. On behalf of the FOCC, I would like to express my gratitude for your continued support of the FOCC. Kathryn Mitchell Chair, FOCC Issue 3 – Editor: R Franklin Registered Charity Number: 1146575 grant from the FOCC. Entitled ‘Make From the Director of Music We Merry’ it is currently on sale I am delighted to contribute to this and sold very well in the run up to the third informative and entertaining Christmas. edition of the FOCC Newsletter, In March, one chorister successfully with a résumé of what the Cathedral passed the Bishop’s Chorister Choir has been up to during 2017. Examination – Jamie Sparkes was our We continue to benefit from the only candidate this year, to whom magnificent fund-raising efforts of the many congratulations. FOCC and thank you for your support of them. Do please consider becoming In April a Year 6 chorister Matthew a member if you are not already, or Baker left us because he was missing his subscribing to the 500 Club. swimming so much. He is of county standard and it was a very difficult The Cathedral’s choirs and music decision to make. I like to think of staff continue to the very best of their the Cathedral Choir as a county team abilities to provide suitable music to ‘competing’ at national level. He left enhance the worship at the Cathedral. with my blessing on the proviso that The New Year got off to a good start he keep winning. on the feast of the Epiphany and a Easter fell awkwardly with respect to week later, with the annual Epiphany the school terms but we managed some Carol Service. down time for the choir on either side On February 1 it was good to field of Holy Week and Easter the Cathedral Choir for the RAF On April 27 it was great to welcome Regiment’s 75th anniversary service. new Probationer Theo Geileskey from Also in February we recorded a CD Risby School. He was rapidly made with Neil Collier of Priory Records. a Chorister and his mother, Sarah, Three evenings of hard work resulted has begun ordination training on in a very satisfactory recording of placement at the Cathedral; a very Christmas music, most of it performed happy combination of circumstances. in the previous term. This could not On 30 April we said farewell to have happened without a generous Thomas Upton, a long-serving chorister and Head Chorister. His successor is Samuel Vernon. On May 21 we gave a concert at 5 pm as part of the Bury Festival. We sang Duruflé’s setting of the Requiem Mass, with Katharine Thomas and Janet Banks singing and playing the cello, respectively, for the Pie Jesu. Beautifully accompanied by Mr Binns and with our own David Sadler providing the Baritone solos, this was very well received by a large audience. In July we very much enjoyed hosting the girls and boys top lines from Trinity Church, New Haven, Connecticut. They spent two weeks in the UK, firstly based at Guildford and then with us. They sang five choral services in all, one on their own, the others in combination with various resident choirs. A grand time was had by all and we were cordially invited to visit them in the USA in due course. Bishop Graeme took up the reins as Celebrating Choir Term ended on July 16 with sad twenty years at St Acting Dean, and was and continues Edmundsbury farewells to one Chorister – William to be enormously supportive of what Lowden and our two Choral Scholars, the Cathedral’s Choirs try to achieve. Rob O’Brian and Ethan Grimwood. The annual performance of Messiah The annual Outward Bound summer was well up to standard, particularly camp took place at the end of August, the four excellent soloists, all of them as usual in what’s left of Happisburgh. friends of Mr Binns! The ticket sales Term began, as did Katharine’s and were well up on previous years, which my 21st year here, on Sunday 10 was very heartening. The Advent September with the choir in good and Christmas engagements were heart despite the low numbers. On all successful and enjoyable: Carols 24 September we sang an extra service by Candlelight; the service of Nine in the evening at Barham church Lessons & Carols; and the Mass on where the Revd Carl Melville, our Christmas morning, accompanied by former curate, is in charge. There a small string orchestra. was a scarecrow chorister in the choir Recruiting is proving more difficult stalls who watched more attentively than ever, but a recent ‘Be a Chorister’ throughout the proceedings than any event resulted in the appointment of of the other singers. three new Probationers: Oliver, Tristan 30 September saw an extra service and Oliver, you are hugely welcome on requested by the Bishop to celebrate board. Here’s to many years of happy the 500th anniversary of Martin music-making together! Luther. It was a good experience, nice to be made to listen to some relevant Moves organ music and some German was learned. Saturday 7 October saw the Salvete Ray Alexander annual diocesan choirs’ Festival, at Oscar Gleeson the Cathedral this year. It was a joy to Thomas Gotch witness the baptism of three Choristers Toby Webster on Sunday 8 October. Valete Thomas Field Sunday 15 October saw a special Matthew Baker Evensong to say farewell to the Dean William Lowden of the last seven years, Frances Ward. Thomas Upton The Choir Outward Bound Throughout the year Mr T is always a couple of times we are ready for a saying how he doesn’t want to think BBQ and evening games of charades about the Outward Bound, because and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. it means the summer holidays are Day 2: nearly over. However, by the time the After breakfast we all get back into the weekend away rolls round, we all start mini-bus and go off to a nearby forest. looking forward to it. Once there we make a base at a picnic bench and start the first of many capture-the-flag games. A quick break for lunch and to rest, then it’s back off to the forest. After a couple of hours, we’re ready to go back to the hall and get our fish and chips. Another round of games while Bertie the dog (tired of chasing a ball) lies on Mr T’s bed. Day 1: After loading all the bags and food on the mini-bus we are off to Happisburgh with a strict NO SINGING RULE. But we never reach Happisburgh by mini-bus, instead we get dropped off a mile or two down the coast for lovely walk up the beach - this opinion can change depending Day 3: on how much water you have with you The morning of Day 3 is always slow and on you - with an ice cream stop as we regret not unpacking neatly and half way. Once we arrive at the Village decide to use the stuff and hope-it-fits Hall we unpack our neatly packed method. Parents don’t arrive for pick bags – thanks Mums – and make our up for another couple of hours, so we beds. After running around the field whip out the board games and try to make as little mess as possible. Soon most people have gone and it’s only the few who are travelling back on the mini-bus left. It’s not long before Mr T is dropping off the hall’s keys and we are heading home, once again having the sinking feeling that the summer hols are over. Sam Vernon The Service of Nine Lessons & Carols The Service of Nine Lessons & Sam didn’t know who was singing at Carols is very different from our which time. Once we had all finished, usual Evensong or Eucharist. First, he chose who would be singing the it’s held on a different day each year, main solo. and secondly it’s not structured in the During the service, we sang nine same way. Christmas carols and in between I’m here to tell you what I remember there were nine short readings.
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