Just in: Cambridge choir rises from ashes
NewsWe hear that Graham Walker, Director of the recently scrapped St John’s Voices Choir, has not been resting on laurels.
He is the force behind the new Cambridge University Schola Cantorum, the university’s first liturgical choir, encompassing students from several colleges.
Based at Emmanuel College, where Walker is Director of Music, Schola will perform weekly services of candlelit Compline in a different chapel or church each Monday. It has also formed a partnership with Sheffield’s Steel City Choristers.
How many choirs full of toffs does one university need in a country where most kids don’t have any access to music at all?
I your haste to throw in a cheap and nasty sneer, did you not bother to read the last sentence?
So let’s annihilate and destroy everything that Cynic thinks is toff territory……and aspire to what? I’ve worked in restaurant kitchens and pubs, serving and washing pots and pans, in supermarkets on the tills……but I can still appreciate classical music can’t I? Let’s not keep erecting barriers with such divisive language that stirs up bile and resentment. There’s plenty of that out there on the streets already.
Brilliant!! Here’s to the new choir, looking forward to hearing them and many congratulations to Graham Walker
Great to know they’ve formed a partnership with Sheffield’s Steel City Choristers – whose origins are the refugees from the controversially disbanded Sheffield Cathedral Choir in 2020.
Not sure that many of the old SJV were particularly fond of Walker as their director. He is said to have a massive chip on his shoulder about not being up to the role of director of music at John’s…
What a load of tosh! Now, let’s think: who might want to be nasty and bitter about this particular piece of good news??