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SIMON LINDLEY

It was with sadness that we learned of the passing of Simon Lindley.

He served as Assistant Master of Music to Peter Hurford and was Director of Music at St Albans School.

He died on 25th February 2025.

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A Once a Chorister Christmas Present

From the Chair of Once a Chorister

The annual, Once a Chorister Magazine has recently been published on our website and is free to download. Please distribute the link widely to your members, music departments, clergy, colleagues and anyone interested in choral music in worship. Please go to www.fcoca.org.uk and click on the link on the Home page.

We send season’s greetings and wish all choristers and former choristers everywhere a happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Nick Hodges
Chair

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Reunion and Special Evensong

Date: Saturday 15 June 2024

Time: 5pm Evensong

Ex-choristers are invited to join us for a Special Evensong and reception to mark the retirement of Andrew Lucas as Master of the Music.

Members will have received an email invitation and please reply to assist us with planning.

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Come and Sing Evensong with the Cathedral Girls Choir

Date: Saturday 27 April 2024

Time: 3.45pm arrival for 4pm rehearsal and 5pm Evensong

A unique opportunity to sing with our internationally-renowned Cathedral Girls Choir and Lay Clerks, under the direction of Assistant Master of the Music, Tom Winpenny.

Celebrate this Eastertide, and the important role girls play in church music, with a joyous Evensong in an awe-inspiring setting.

The Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis will be Wood in E flat (no. 2) and the anthem will be Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. (Other choir items will be sung by the Cathedral Girls Choir only.)

Please specify which part you will sing when booking. You’ll receive a free link to the sheet music so you can learn it ahead of time. Please bring copies with you.

Singers’ places are £10, to include light refreshments after the service. (No charge, nor need to book, to be in the congregation!)

All proceeds go towards the Cathedral Girls Choir’s tour to Germany this Spring.

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