The organist librarian

Saturday to the excellent Resurrection art exhibition at Farm Street and then the Guild of Musicians and singers at All Hallows by the Tower. Maurice Merrall installed as third Master. Met Stephen Bryant and Patricia Routledge. Giles used to write music obituaries for the Independent and introduced me to an organist from Cambridgeshire. Giles thought I could do a talk on the Chorus. Silk Street sinfonia played really well - Handel and Elgar and did some sketching. The violas had a lovely sound. Stephen Haylett was there and met Fr John O'Toole at the site where Thomas More died.You were only executed within the Tower if you were really important!  Excellent talk on recording. Brian at Mass and lots of servers.

An enjoyable programme of Mendelssohn, Couperin, Haydn and Bach from Ben Lewis-Smith at St Michael Turnham Green. Good chat to Jonathan Dods, Bored quiding at the cathedral / Fr Stephen Haylett came to hear confessions -  he is fat!  Holy Week practice went well rather a lot to do! Ben is a real asset and Rebecca as well so we had 6. Home at 9 but picked up Liz - 30 minute wait. Decline and Fall not as good as last week. Saturday cleaned garden windows and got water features going. Lovely day again. Clare came. Wrote letter about refugees.  This week I attended two similar events. Bishop Paul McAleenan gave the last Lent lecture at St Joseph's hospice Hackney and Lord Alf Dubbs spoke at St Mary at Hill on bringing unaccompanied refugee children from Europe to the U.K. Bishop Paul is the bishop dealing with migration and he said that only 3 church organisations in the diocese of Westminster had responded to Pope Francis's call to take in migrants. This is a very disappoi...