Michael suggested auditioning for the Philharmonia Chorus and Hagen-Groll said I would be heard again in 6 months. It did not happen as Ron Archer sat next to me. At the first rehearsal Ethel magnificent contralto said you're a new tenor and Liz also said Hello. It was Elijah and we were to sing it in Coventry cathedral with Fruhbeck. Russell Burgess said you can't learn this on one rehearsal but astonishingly I sang and sight read a lot of it! The concert was mind blowing. On the coach Liz asked about my accent and we established her great aunt lived in Yeoville and I must have walked past her house on the way to school. Liz got out at Baker Street and I stayed on to get the Central line to White City. I thought tubes ran all night! I used the money from the concert to get an illegal cab back to Ealing.
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