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Reports and College Activities A YEAR IN THE CHAPEL CHOIR Organist Prof. Owen Rees; Senior Organ Scholar Laurence John; Junior Organ Scholar Tom Dilley; Maurice Pearton Choral Scholar and recipient of the Hilde Pearton Vocal Training James Tomlinson; Hildburg Williams Lieder Scholar Jacob Clark; Librarians Sarah Mattinson, Jake Sternberg Owen Rees Organist A particularly busy schedule of autumn engagements for the choir began – bizarrely but memorably – with a performance of music from the Harry Potter films beside ‘Platform 9¾’ at King’s Cross Station, as part of the now famous annual event to mark the departure of the Hogwarts Express on 1 September. A few weeks later members of the choir – resplendent in period costume – were at the Ingatestone Hall in Essex to film the Boar’s Head Carol for BBC 2’s A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley. The celebrations of the 300 th anniversary of the consecration of the chapel included a live broadcast of Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3 featuring music by composers associated with the college (Herbert The choir performing Handel’s Messiah in the University Church 50 The Queen’s College | College Record 2020
Reports and College Activities Howells, Bernard Rose, Kenneth Leighton and David Bednall), and a concert of music contemporary with the completion of the new chapel, by Bach and Handel. For the performance of Handel’s coronation anthem Zadok the Priest the current choir was joined by a large number of previous choir members, producing an absolutely thrilling effect. The instrumental ensemble for this concert was the Oxford-based Instruments of Time and Truth, with whom the choir again collaborated for a concert performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 in Hilary term. In the final week of Michaelmas term the choir gave a concert of Christmas music at Great Milton, in the series hosted by Raymond Blanc’s hotel and restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. There followed a performance of Handel’s Messiah to a capacity audience in the University Church, which was also the choir’s first performance with the Academy of Ancient Music, one of the world’s leading period-instrument ensembles. A CD recording project with this ensemble, scheduled for June, was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the pandemic also of course led to the cessation of choral services, but the choir came together during Trinity term to make a virtual-choir recording of Brahms’s Geistliches Lied (bit.ly/choir-brahms). The choir’s recording of Christmas music by Michael Praetorius and modern composers, and featuring Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, was issued as the cover CD of the December 2019 issue of BBC Music Magazine, and a BBC Radio 3 recording of Choral Evensong (recorded in Michaelmas term) was broadcast in March 2020 to mark International Women’s Week. All the music on the broadcast, including the psalms hymn, and organ voluntary, was by women composers, including Judith Bingham, Roxanna Panufnik, Rebecca Clarke, Cecilia McDowall and Ethel Smyth. Particular thanks go to our Senior Organ Scholar, Laurence John, who has given three years of excellent service to the choir, chapel and College. College Record 2020 | The Queen’s College 51
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