Music As everybody says, it has been a year — and continues to be a year — like no other. There have again been a large number of concerts — not quite as many as usual, of course, but many, nonetheless. The first two terms were unaffected by the pandemic so that the musicians had the opportunity for the usual round of instrumental and vocal recitals every Friday lunchtime in Cheap Street Church, Carol Services and choral concerts ranging from the Chamber Choir being joined by a broadcasting boys’ choir from Norway (the Sølvguttene), a Choral Society (formerly MusSoc) performance of Mozart’s Requiem in the Abbey, to the twice-weekly school services; a few Prep School workshop days involving Shirburnians getting to grips with the coaching of younger instrumentalists for a ‘grand finale’ at tea-time; instrumental competitions and masterclasses on Sundays with external adjudicators and leaders; and a plethora of grade exams with a handful of impressive diplomas. The last two live performances before everything stopped in March were given by the Sherborne Schools’ Symphony Orchestra in St John’s Smith Square, London and the Chamber Choir in a full Festal Evensong in the School Chapel on the Eve of the Annunciation (a service followed by the annual dinner for Chamber Choir singers and their parents in the OSR) just a matter of days before the School closed and the first Lockdown started.
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