The Abbey Chamber Choir sang evensong for a transferred observance of All Souls’ Day. I’m not sure whether this was a first for Bath Abbey, but we were able to submit names of the departed in advance and they were remembered by name during the service. [A later suggestion that incense might be used at one of the Christmas services was, however, firmly refused.] Clearly quite a few people asked for this, though the list was not as long as at another service in Bath some years ago.
We sang Sumsion in A and Bullock’s Give us the wings of faith. In October, the choir sang one of the large-scale anthems that were commoner in its repertoire when it was founded four years ago: Harris’ Strengthen ye the weak hands, which was known to few, other than me and those who’d been at the same college as our conductor.