I went back for a Gaudy at my old Oxford College, Merton. It was the first Gaudy I’d been invited to for 9 years, and the first since the choral foundation was set up. A selection of choir members sang at a very well attended Evensong in Chapel, the music including Gibbons’ Short Service and his If ye be risen with Christ, the latter sung at the East end by the chamber organ.
I get some information about the choir via the Friends scheme, though communications (especially by email) have broken down a little recently. I was officially told about a broadcast by the choir only on the day it happened, and received an invitation to a recital four days after it had taken place! These were last October, and probably fell through the net because the post of verger was unoccupied during the Long Vacation so there was no one to send the message out.
I gather the new organ is proving popular for recordings, and indeed has just been used on one made by one of the other major Oxford choral foundations. Looking at the music lists, I notice also that the repertoire includes fewer 21st century pieces than it did a few years ago. I got a chance to congratulate the choir as I came across them eating their dinner in the Savile Room afterwards.