Music
The Cathedral Choir consists of men and boys who sing at five services each week. David Price is the Organist and Master of the Choristers and Oliver Hancock has been the Sub-Organist from September 2012. David Price has taken the post of directing the youth choir, Cantate, from September 2011.
The Parish Choir sings at the Parish Eucharist on Sunday mornings and was directed by William Drakett before Oliver Hancock took over in September 2012.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.... Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)
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—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)