ST ALL-BUNS

With collaboration and harmony at the very heart of the Joint Schools’ Chamber Choir, the RGS students along with their counterparts from Guildford High School have sung Evensong in some of the country’s most iconic venues, including Keeble College Oxford, St Paul’s Cathedral, Trinity College Cambridge and Westminster Abbey. To this list the choir added St Alban’s Cathedral, a magnificent building housing the shrine to Britain’s first Saint and the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain. Of many fascinating elements to its history, the Alban Bun, the original Hot Cross Bun, has been a part of the Easter tradition at St Albans for nearly 700 years where the buns were distributed to feed the poor on Good Friday. With not a bun in sight, however, the choir were treated to a guided tour of the Cathedral before heading to the stalls to rehearse for Evensong later that evening. The choice of repertoire, aptly chosen to suit the imposing interior of the building and the solemn period of Lent, included William Byrd’s stunning