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Dear Reader Should you be in Adelaide on 26 March 2011 at 5pm we will be singing a benefit concert for those affected by flood and earthquake. It will be an opportunity to showcase the repertoire we did overseas as well. Entry is free but there will be a retiring collection. Cxxx PS The Diocesan paper, The Guardian , has a nice centrefold about our tour as well. You can find it here The Guardian March 2011

Click on the link below to see this month's Cathedral Notes. Cathedral Notes February/March 2011 As usual, Lavinia has done a marvellous job. I think this is one of her best ever. Leonie's report of the tour is also terrific. And Jenny's Sermon from Sunday... In the name of God, creating, redeeming, sanctifying, … Amen. There were seven cases of choir robes. Each case contained the cassock and surplice and ruffs and medals for five or six of the choristers who travelled on our choir’s tour to England and Rome. Each case was named after a composer – Bruckner, Palestrina, Howells and so on - and one chorister was deemed the “case captain” for each case. Before each service, every chorister would go to their case captain to collect their robes, and after each service, to the case captain, their robes would be returned. Those robes travelled on the bus that carried the choir all around England, sometimes the robes were in their cases, but more often they were wrapped in...

Well, Dear Reader, you must have wondered what happened to me. Although I have actually run in to many of my loyal blog-readers in person since returning home I have not done as I promised and written a finishing post. The time in KL was lovely, but it was even better to arrive in Adelaide. The twenty weary choristers and tagalongs who returned together were very pleased to clear customs and see our families, or in my case, my driver from Adelaide Impressions who loaded all eight of my cases for their penultimate run, back to my place. They have since been emptied of their robes and music, which have been rehung and sorted in that order. It took me more than a week to achieve this, as I was rather slow in recovering from the trip home. I blame, in order... the communal cold, which made my sinuses feel like there was a little man inside with silver hammers trying to get out. Much worse at however-many-thousand feet. Better now jet lag - yes I had some going out Thursday night f...

Dear Reader We are halfway home in terms of time and more than half way in flying distance. The Gang of Twenty (Letters A-T for Sound Off) left Rome yesterday lunchtime and arrived in Kuala Lumpur early this morning KL time. Our rooms in the Pan Pacific Hotel were not available so we were offered complimentary breakfast. What a spread! Traditional English, Indian and Chinese Malay, Continental, fresh fruit etc etc. Gradually over the next couple of hours the rooms became available, and we are all installed now for our rest before finishing our journey home. The swimming pool is proving popular and I may even venture poolwards in a minute as it is quite beautiful. Anyway, we get free, if not slow, internet, so I will upload the photos John Campbell gave me from the Vatican event. Thanks John. Concert at St Paul Outside the Walls Lining up at our accommodation Coming along our street Beside the Vatican Walls Processing in the Piazza Rehearsing O Bone Jesu ...