Visiting Chichester, wonderful singing from the Cathedral Choir at Evensong on Easter Sunday. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by Stanford. The anthem: the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah.
So much more musical than I recall them from previous services over the past two decades - the improvement evidently springing from their superb, musicianly “choirmaster”, Sarah Baldock (above).
But why has she not yet enabled girls to join? They are still an all-male outfit.
Anachronistic. No?
And given that boys’ voices break at such a young age nowadays, there must be a reduction in musical maturity among the trebles compared with, say, a century ago. Enabling slightly older girls to join would solve this problem at a stroke.
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