An RSCM ‘Come and sing Evensong with the Cathedral choir’ event provided a chance to sing in the only one of the 42 English Church of England Cathedrals I hadn’t yet performed in: Bradford. I’d not actually ever done anything like this before: stand alongside the Cathedral choir, in the choir stalls, to sing a service. It was probably only practical because Bradford is a very small diocese, so not that many extra singers would sign up (in fact, a few days later General Synod started the procedure for abolishing the Diocese, though not the Cathedral).
The music was Smith responses, Sumsion in A and The Heavens are telling by Haydn. A laptop had been discreetly located just off the nave to keep up with the tennis, and after the end of evensong some of us saw the winning point of the men’s singles final on another singer’s phone.