Goring Chamber Choir
travelled to Truro to sing all the services in the cathedral.
The visit is one of the
highlights of the choir’s year. Each August members visit a different
cathedral up and down the country during the regular choir’s summer
holiday.
And this year’s visit to
Truro marked the 25th cathedral trip since the choir’s first visit to
Durham Cathedral in 1979.
The choir sang all the
services from evensong on Friday, August 20th, until evensong on Sunday
August 22nd, under the direction of musical director Frances
Brewitt-Taylor who was conducting her fourteenth cathedral visit.
The music included
anthems by Kalinnikov, Mozart and Mendelssohn, Responses by Leighton and
Naylor, and a mass by Tomás Victoria.
The choir aims to achieve
the highest possible standard of performance during the weekend, so
exacting rehearsals were held in the crypt before each service, assisted
by accompanist Janet Pound.
The choir’s organist,
Michael Howell, accompanied the services on Truro’s Father Willis organ,
known as the ‘little giant’.
Choir chairman Stuart
Crippen said: "Choir members eagerly anticipate the annual tradition of
singing the services in a cathedral during the summer. We had another
very successful visit this year, and the choir owes a great deal to
Frances Brewitt-Taylor, who puts in a huge amount of work on our
behalf."
Next year the Chamber
Choir will be singing in Wells Cathedral from August 29th to 31st
