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Paul Morgan, Assistant Organist 1969-1999 and Organist 1999–2010, celebrated his 80th Birthday on Sunday 18th May.
This was very happily announced at the end of Sunday morning Eucharist by the Dean, who expressed warmest Best Wishes and Congratulations to Paul on behalf of the whole Cathedral community. Paul was then given a gift from the Cathedral and Happy Birthday was very warmly sung by the choir and congregation, with appropriate flourish on the organ by Adam Field, Organ Scholar!
Paul directing the Cathedral Choir in 1972 while Lionel Dakers was on sabbatical leave as examiner for the ABRSM. (photo: School Education Resource Pack, John Figg, St Luke's College)
Programme of the day:
- Practice in the Cathedral
- Choral Eucharist: OCs joined the Cathedral Choir
Mass: Schubert in G
Anthem: Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner
- Cooked Lunch at the Chantry
- Rehearsal in the Cathedral
- Evensong: OCs joined the Cathedral Choir to sing:
Introit: Give me my scallop-shell of quiet - Andrew Millington
Canticles: C. V. Stanford in C
Anthem: I Was Glad - C. H. H. Parry
- Devon cream-tea reception in the new Cloister
- ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (Chapter House)
- Dinner at Mercure Southgate Hotel, Exeter
Award of ECOCA Vice-President to: Rev. Canon Carl Turner, Precentor of Exeter, 2001-2014
Guest speaker: Katherine Dienes, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral
Photo gallery available here
(please send any photos that you have to ecoca.exeter@gmail.com)
The current choir's Exeter Cathedral Choir Association has an essential aim of raising money for enrichment activities for the choristers and to help fund choir tours. You can support this at no cost to you, by simply doing your online shopping using 'Easyfunding'
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/exetercathedralchoirassoc/
Over £1,500 has been raised so far this way!