A busy morning at the Abbey

Although I have sung a number of morning services at Bath Abbey with its Chamber Choir, I don’t think I’ve sung two back to back. It makes for a long morning! We met at 8.30 to rehearse, and sang an anthem (Lennox Berkeley’s setting of Psalm 23) at the first service at 9.30. Then a quick turnaround before the second service at 11.30 where the setting was Darke in F and we also performed an introit (Bairstow’s Jesu the very thought) and an anthem new to me (Byrd’s Ego sum panis vivus). A lot of the choir were still away so we were small in number; unfortunately I can’t do the next couple of engagements so it will be November before I perform with them again.