I fitted in a second carol service before Christmas, at a local village church. This was rather shorter than the full 9 lessons, and we sang a few choir items and some standard hymns. Some were new to me, including an Orientalist arrangement of ‘We Three Kings’ by Rutter.
I neglected to mention that others in the family went to a concert by the Bath Philharmonia and Foden’s Brass band. They combined for Janacek’s Sinfonietta, the highlight of the concert, after the Philharmonia had played Beethoven 8, while Foden’s had items of its own, not all mentioned in the advertised programme. This resulted in a long concert with two intervals.