Dad

 Not sure what year this was

FJ at 80

Louise in Mikado extracts

P.1102 comments on Holy Week recordings. Dad had played for 60 years. P.1104 1997 Dad composed an anthem for Bruce's confirmation based on Veni creator Pentecost sunday. He describes in detail our 50th birthday vespers. Louise sang Stanford Magnificat in G superbly. P.1109 FJ played on his 80th birthday. P.1111 anthem for Bruce. P.1119 Liz's dad very ill.p.1121 he died peacefully iSt Christopher's hospice on the day we got him there from Mayday. He waited until we had gone. This was a real blow. Mum and Dad were so happy at Glyn Close. No. 99 was sold after K died and Janka and Gennik had to move out. Years later we visited the redesigned house it was gorgeous and just one family over 4 floors! P.1122 the funeral Adrian played. P.1123 Louise sang in Mikado at school. We started planning our August 1998 trip to Oz. P.1129 Liz at Lichfield and Brecon while I was again at Canterbury. Dennis got 3 As having spent another year at St Joseph's and was accepted for training at St Bart's. I played twice at Canterbury including the Dorian! 

Digital organ

Chorus tributes to Joyce Reah

P.1076 we sang Bairstow's Cradle song at Christmas 1996.p.1083 I applied for Tooting library but did not get it. Dad rewrote the wedding anthem a tone down.p.1085 Runcie biography by Humphrey Carpenter.I think the Archbishop was indescreet. Ffrench-Beytagh mentioned. P.1087 Bruce had a growth on his leg. P.1091 video of York Minster. P.1093 dad sent a copy of the Walter Webber Tuba tune on Lobe den Herren which I played at the mayoral service at St Mark's.

 Adult choir was in good shape . We built a repertoire which we all knew for big services e.g. gathering Mass, Inwood communion song, Jones Gloria. In June 1996 Stephen Haylett was ordained a Catholic priest at St George's cathedral. He had been an Anglican priest and did his diaconate at Addiscombe. Very musical person.

In 1996 Joyce Reah died in November and I played for the funeral at Surbiton Catholic church. It was the only time I played the piano at Gandhi Hall! Faure Requiem. We all loved her. I was on the Parish council at Our Lady's purely advisory.  I sang the tenor solos in a liturgical Mozart requiem at St John's and played during the flower festival. Simon Lole welcomed us to G CM weekend at Sheffield cathedral.

Parsifal in Birmingham with Simon Rattle

Medieval banquet St John's

 RSCM leave Addington Palace

The hilarious Howard Thomas after singing at the RSCM summer course at Canterbury cathedral

Mum and Dad visit UK

 

Dad and Dennis in St Joseph's uniform visit Addington Palace

p.479 possible St Hugh singers at Southwell. p.483 Golden wedding anniversary call p.484 necklace I bought Mum with my first salary! p.490 after 9 years I left St Margaret's Liz had an accident in the car in slippery conditions and Louise sprained her arm. p.494 Ffrench-Beytagh died. He was at a city church and I met him once on Westminster bridge. He remembered me. A very complex character we shall probably never know how much he did in South Africa and why he was deported. There was certainly lots of money being sent via the Church. p.496 Josie agreed that Mum and Dad could stay with her. p.500 planned itinerary. p.502 in fact they stayed with Jean and they loved it. Jean was a stalwart of St John's. Southwell was off! p.503 my comments on Barber Adagio for strings on the organ. Michael Deasey is mentioned. p.508 the trip to U.K. and we all holidayed at Kennall farm at Ponsanooth near Truro. We had of course breakfasted at Little Chef on the way down (this was traditional) Dennis and geology. We played Truro cathedral organ. Dennis went down a tin mine. The Croydon girls including Louise sang well in the cathedral and Louise played her trumpet. She had amazing ability taking up trumpet and later oboe and the piano. p.515 John Bolton who I also remember and we visited him in Kettering. p.516 Jean Bartlett. Alexander Nevsky at the Proms p.517 Addington Palace and St John's and Revd David and Susanna Martin. Dad does not mention that I lent him my cine camera so he could record his walks round York. p.523 Ightham Mote a place we have always loved. Dennis was keen on family trees and it is great that Mum wrote so much in the photo books. Chartwell and Finchcocks, Bexhill-on-sea, the Lewis at St John's, p.524 Pomp and Circumstance at St John's. John East and St Etheldreda's. Dennis sang at Guildford cathedral p,524. Liz went to Belmont Abbey  for a teacher's retreat. p.527 Dennis at Bury St Edmunds with Martin How. Dad describes in details the memorial concert for Ray Barber which was a great success with a lovely party at home afterwards. p.528. Visit to York library p.529 p.531 to 534 describes Hong Kong.

1959

An article I wrote for St Mary's cathedral magazine 1971 about the chapel we attended for 8 a.m. communion

With Grandma and Granddad at Harewood House, Wearing St John's college blazer and a view of the school, Land's End.

page 61 27 June 1959 to Athens I was 13 and Ann was 3. St Peter's day in Rome., a royal wedding in Brussels, Zurich Zoo. 4350 miles round England visiting cathedrals and places associated with the family including Cheltenham and Daventry. Then we were off to the summer school at Addington Palace. I think Dad had been warned about possible homosexual elements at RSCM so decided to fill me in on the facts of life. Apparently I had read it all in a book aged 8 but forgotten most of it! The atmosphere at Addington Palace was very boarding school. I was told off for playing the piano in the dormitory which Dad thought crazy as we were there to make music! The main point made to me was to open my mouth. I do recall the Basil Harwood centenary evensong at Westminster Abbey. We enjoyed Beckonscot and then back to York. We went to Edinburgh and Carlisle. Sadly this was the last time I saw Granddad. Mum often said I had some mannerisms with my hands just like him. As we drove away I knew we would not see Grandma and Granddad again. They had presented me with a beautiful Bible. I had been confirmed by Bishop Reeves in St John's College chapel aged 12. He wore white gloves as he was allergic to hair oil. I thought he looked like the White Rabbit. We finished up in Paris and it is worth reading about Monsieur Le Grand page. 64. In Nice we starved. 

At Addington Palace with Francis Close in the middle and I am wearing my St John's college blazer. Not sure who is on the left I do not think it is Alan Hall

with UncleWalter and Aunt Emily

Nellie and Grandad

Monsieur Le Grand French teacher