In the summer present and past members of the Chandos Singers met to commemorate their recently departed conductor, Malcolm Hill. Although I hadn’t sung with them for a decade, I was invited back, but wasn’t able to sing because I was away that weekend. (It would have been the first time I’d performed in the chapel of Prior Park College.)
More recently there was the postponed concert to mark 200 years of St Mary’s Bathwick with an expanded choir conducted by Gary Desmond. I sang at the other church in the benefice, St John’s, for a dozen or so years, and quite often joined St Mary’s choir for special events, most recently a funeral not long before the pandemic. But no invitation to sing this concert reached me, so I believe St. John’s was unrepresented in this choir. I assume it was recruited by word of mouth in a hit-and-miss manner; at least one person who sang in the concert expressed regret that I wasn’t there.