The Senior School Carol Service

We started the term with several new members, but soon settled down into a well-balanced combination. The Holy Communion service on All Saints' Day was sung to Merbecke's setting, and Walmisley's settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis were sung with the School on the Sunday next before Advent. A new anthem of note, "Rejoice in the Lord Alway", by Purcell, was sung on the Sunday appointed for thanksgiving for the King's restoration to health.

The following anthems were sung during the term :- Evening hymn—Balfour Gardiner. Thou visitest the earth—Greene. 0 come ye servants—Tye. *Cantate Domino—Pitoni. What are these—Alan Gray, O.P. *Rejoice in the Lord alway (The Bell Anthem)—Purcell. * Added to Choir repertory this term.

D.A.H.

All carol services are popular and ours was no exception. The demand for tickets was as great this year as ever and in two days all seats were allocated. The service took place on the last Sunday of term, 16th December, at 6 p.m. The carols and Christmas hymns were :— Once in Royal David's City—H. J. Gauntlett. *Invitatory Chorale from the Christmas Oratorio—J. S. Bach. O little town of Bethlehem—Traditional. *The Holly and the Ivy—Traditional, arr. Watford Davies. *Ding-dong ! Merrily on high—French, 1588. While Shepherds watched—Este's Psalter, 1592, descant by Alan Gray, O.P.

*Rocking—Czech. Puer nobis—I5th Centurry. Shepherds in the fields abiding—French. *In dulci jubilo-14th Century German—arr. R. L. de Pearsall. The first Nowell—Traditional. *Wither's rocking hymn—R. Vaughan Williams. Behold the Great Creator-15th Century English Carol. Adeste Fideles-18th Century, French. Hark ! the herald Angels sing—Mendelssohn. * Sung by the Choir alone.

The singing was up to the usual standard. The School sang loudly in the right places and was not daunted even by the unexpected top F's in the processional hymn. These were occasioned by a tendency 25