New singing year begins

The choir commenced the 2024/25 choral year on Saturday 7th September.

During Sunday evensong, 8th September, there were installations of the:

Adam Field (right) with Assistant Director of Music, Michael Stephens-Jones (photo: Heather Morgan, Cathedral News, October 2024)

Celia Stoddart (photo: Heather Morgan, Cathedral News, October 2024)

And the investing of the eight senior choristers, who duly received their ribbons and badges of office. There was a drinks reception in the nave after the service, with a celebratory cake for the senior choristers.

(photo: Heather Morgan, Cathedral News, October 2024)

Exeter Cathedral - 2024 cake

(photo: Mike Dobson)

Service:

Responses:- Rose

Hymn: Come, let us join our cheerful songs

Psalm: 119 vv 41-56

Magnifcat and Nunc Dimittis: Wood in E Flat

Anthem: How lovely are Thy dwellings fair - Brahms

Hymn: Guide me, O thou great Redeemer

Organ voluntary: Finale from Symphony no. 6 - Charles-Marie Widor