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MEDIA RELEASE
Issued: September 9, 2016
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Chigwell School's Chapel Choir conducts Evensong at
St Paul’s Cathedral
The Chigwell School Chapel Choir conducted Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
The school's Director of Music, Howard Ebden, said: "The opportunity for the choir to perform and lead the worship in a venue that is historically world famous and iconic was an honour."
The service was the school’s annual Leavers’ Service for the Chapel Choir, giving the school the chance to bid farewell to those in the choir moving on to further education.
Mr Ebden added: "During the afternoon and in the final service the choir were heard by thousands of cathedral visitors from around the world, many of whom commented on the beauty and quality of the sound.
"The choir members were outstanding in their maturity, musicality and deportment with
attention to the minutia that the occasion demanded. They are great ambassadors for the school.
"The music, a difficult programme of Canticles and Responses by Kenneth Leighton, resounded through the building and up into the epochal dome.
"The interjections of the awesome and spectacular great organ of the Cathedral, played by our own Simon Winters in Mathias’ ‘Let the People Praise Thee, O God’, made a fitting anthem in which to finish the service."
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