I didn’t get to sing in the Great Chorus but there was a reprise of two pieces that were performed at it: Zadok the Priest and the Hallelujah Chorus at the end-of-year Commemoration Service in Bath Abbey. This gathering must be the largest concentration of images of wyverns anywhere – these heraldic beasts are the school mascot and appear on blazers, ties and on the front of the order of service.
It all happened early on Saturday morning (so that we got out of the Abbey before the peak visiting hours). I filled in the second soprano part in Zadok, and because another singer missed the rehearsal and only found out she didn’t have the music for Hallelujah as we were about to sing it, I handed her my copy and did my Bristol Choral party piece of singing it from memory.