The Bishop of Taunton came along to church to dedicate our new chapel to St Michael at the appropriate season. We laid on a service with three anthems, including Bairstow’s Let all mortal flesh, which I recorded many years ago with my College chapel choir, and which was one of the more notable recordings we put together in lockdown.
(The symbol at the end of the title of this post – if it renders correctly – is an Old Church Slavonic multiocular o, used in one manuscript to include the many eyes of the seraphim in a single letter. The Unicode standard for this glyph has recently changed so it has ten eyes, not seven; this is exciting news for a script geek like me.)