Canterbury Choral Society

My nephew Philip drove me from Hampshire to Canterbury. After supper with several family members Philip, Helen, I and a couple of their cousins went to Canterbury Cathedral.

Since last year the scaffolding has been removed from the west end so the Cathedral looks magnificent with much of the stone renovation that has been happening for many years now completed.

We listened to the Canterbury Choral society singing Handel’s Zadock the Priest (a coronation anthem first performed in 1727), Handel’s My Heart is Inditing, Bach’s Suite No3 in D performed by the Hanover Band (orchestra), Haydn’s Insanae et Vanae Curae and then Haydn’s Nelson Mass. The Canterbury Choral Society has been conducted by Richard Cooke for 40 years! He was a boy chorister  at St Paul’s Cathedral and later sang for four years as a Choral Scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge under David Willcocks.