Historic church suspends boys choir after few turn up
mainLeeds Minster, a church dating back to the 7th century (last rebuilt 1841), has suspended a 200-year tradition of boys choral singing because it can’t find enough boys to attend.
‘There just aren’t the numbers of boys singing with us currently to make them deliver what’s expected of them,’ said, the Rev Canon Sam Corley, Rector of Leeds. ‘There used to be 30 boys and we were down to nowhere near that – as low as five at some services.’
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How about girl singers? Or does that not have the same attraction for the clergy?
Do I detect a waspish tongue-in-cheek? snigger
Child abuse humor. Clever….
And yet no one offers an alternate plausible answer.
Why not girls? The boys sounded like girls already.
Manchester Cathedral Choir has struggled to attract boys too. There has only been ONE boy in the mixed line-up for a while now, and this is a choir attached to Chetham’s!