10.30

Rehearsal in the Cathedral

11.30

Choral Eucharist: OCs and the Cathedral Choir. Music:

• Mass setting: Schubert in G
• Communion motet: Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
• Organ Voluntary: Bach - Toccata in F

12.55

Lunch at the Chantry

14.00

Rehearsal in the Cathedral

15.00

Evensong: OCs and the Cathedral Choir. Music:

• Introit: Bruckner - Locus Iste
• Responses: Michael Walsh (cathedral choir only)
• Psalm: 135, vv. 1-14 (cathedral choir only)
• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Harwood in A Flat (with Gordon Pike singing the tenor solo for his 100th time, which was then repeated in unison by all singers as a surprise 'token of respect' for Gordon - video of this epic event, recorded by Laurence John, Organ Scholar, from the organ loft)
• Anthem: Wesley - Blessed Be the God and Father
• Anthem after the Blessing: Richard Shephard - The Strife is O'er (commissioned by Geoffrey Mitchell (old chorister) to mark the 25th anniversary of the foundation of ECOCA and first performed at the 1989 reunion)
• Organ Voluntary: Vierne - Final (Symphonie VI)

16.00

Tea in the Chapter House

17.00

Annual General Meeting, in the Pearson Room, Cathedral Cloisters

• AGM Agenda (pdf file)
• AGM Minutes from 2019 (there were no AGM meetings in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid)
• ECOCA Newsletter, 2022

19.30

Dinner at the Mercure Southgate Hotel, Southernhay East.

Guest speaker: Simon Toyne (Old Chorister 1979-1984)