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 Diocesan Choral Festival at Peterborough  Cathedral

After a summer of learning and practising beautiful and challenging music, often with other Choirs in the Diocese, St Mary’s Choir and many friends set off on Saturday 10th October for the annual Festival of Evensong at the Cathedral. 

Enjoying pleasant Autumn weather we shopped, lunched and arrived for our practice at 2.00 pm.

Andrew Reid, Director of Music at the Cathedral, an inspiring teacher, always helps us to achieve our full potential.  This does involve some hard work on our part, it is an amazing feeling when we sing with almost 300 other voices.

After two hours of singing and a welcome cup of tea we assembled for the service at 5.45 pm. The service itself was very moving with lovely hymns and a particularly rousing anthem by Haydn, ‘Insanae et Vanae Curae’, sung in Latin. 

The sermon was given by the Precentor of Leicester Cathedral, The Reverend Canon Stephen Foster, who was himself a professional singer before he became a Priest.

During the service the Royal School of Church Music Awards were presented, two members of the Choir received their Dean’s Award, Gill Dunn and Oliver Grigg.  Congratulations to you both. 

The service ended with the hymn ‘Sun of My Soul’.

Choir members wish to thank Jonathan, Bryan and Karen for all their help at practices.  Thank you also to Christine and Bryan for arranging transport on the day and to members of the congregation and friends at Finedon for supporting us on the day.

Singing can be rather exhausting and quite a number of us ended the day with a visit to a local hostelry for some refreshment (and the traditional chips), on our return.

The Choir are now looking forward to working on the music for the candlelit Advent Service.