The Choir

Our Sung Eucharist on All Saints' Day was glorious : and otherwise our Chapel Services have followed their normal course, except on Sunday, 21st November, when we had no Sermon ! The influenza was then at its height; and with so many absentees, it was decided to ask Canon Tardrew to postpone his visit until next term. We hope very much to see and hear Canon Tardrew, who is now a Governor of the School, then.

At the beginning of October 65 boys started their preparation for Confirmation. The actual Confirmation will take place during the second half of March, next.

Collections during the term amounted to £87 5s. 2d. on ordinary Sundays, and £44 14s. 6d at the two Carol Services, making a total of £131 19s. 8d. After paying our share of printing costs of the Carol Services we were able to send £20 Os. 7d. to St. Stephen's Orphanage, and £10 10s. 5d. to the Centre for the Care of Cerebral Palsied Children. After meeting other necessary expenses, and including the balance from last year, a sum of £86 17s. 2d. is carried forward and will be available in due course for distribution by the Chapel Committee. C.P.

The Choir has been strengthened by an influx of seasoned trebles among the new boys. Solo parts in anthems and carols as well as soaring descants by the whole treble line in hymns and chants have borne witness to the quality and staying-power of the trebles. Dr. Thomas Armstrong's triple chant, which we sing to Psalm 97, has shown, with its descant, that it possesses beauty as well as the vitality we have known it to have for many terms. The altos, on the other hand, suffered grievously in the early part of the term by the loss of 75% of their number who had left the School. The new altos have shown great keenness and the result of their hard work was becoming agreeably noticeable by the end of term.

The following anthems and services have been sung :-

"O come ye servants of the Lord"—Tye. "Thou visitest the earth"—Greene. "Blessed be the God and Father"—S. S. Wesley. "Give us the wings of faith"—Bullock. "What are these that glow from afar"—Alan Gray, O.P. "Hear my prayer"—Mendelssohn. "Praise to the Lord"—Campbell. Stanford in B flat and Walmisley in D minor (with the School singing unison part arranged by C. S. Lang).

Outstanding events have been the Yorkshire Harvest Thanksgiving in the Minster for which the Choir led the singing of a vast congregation and the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in the School 27