In August we held our ‘Come and Sing Coronation Music’ event in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Greenock. This was an idea which captured the imagination, and we had a great turnout, including some potential new members and some visitors from other choirs.

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The music included pieces such as Zadok the Priest, one version by Lawes and one version by Handel, O Grant the King a Long Life by Child and I Was Glad by Parry. We also tackled a new piece - Roxanna Panufnik’s Sanctus which was recently premiered at the King’s Coronation.

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This was our first event with our new Musical Director, Nicholas Wilks. Afterwards Nick said, “The Come and Sing was a great opportunity to meet together before the start of the new season and explore a fantastic range of music written for coronations over the past 400 years. We were also treated to some wonderfully evocative organ solos from Chris Nickol.”

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We were very grateful to all who organised, and especially to St. John’s Episcopal Church who hosted us and organist Chris Nickol who played for us.