I wrote earlier in the year about a memorial service I went to in Oxford. I was back again on Saturday for another such service, this time commemorating a contemporary and friend of mine who died before his time.
We kept the music simple; I and another friend sang the top two parts of Mozart’s Ave Verum as a duet, and there were also songs by Gounod and organ music by Bach. We were accompanied by the current organ scholar; earlier, I had heard the college choir singing at the end of an open rehearsal they were giving.
There were about a tenth of the number at the other service, but somehow both congregations seemed to be the right size for the chapel.