The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge

Another week of Summer and some improved weather here in Cambridge without the Choir here to lift spirits. Several Gents have been in France singing at a music festival in Chinon under Mr Nethsingha's direction. Meanwhile in Gloucester Cathedral, Nethsingha's (and Howells's – see below) former haunt, another Gents wedding took place this weekend. Last month saw Gareth John (Choral Scholar 2004-07 and Lay Clerk 2007-09) married in Oxfordshire and Edward de Minckwitz (Choral Scholar 2005-08 and Lay Clerk 2009-10) was married on Saturday. Both occasions involved a beautiful and rousing selection of music and a large Gents presence (totalling 20!) in the respective assembled choirs.

Tonight we continue the long series of St John's alumni featuring in the BBC Proms. The Late-Night Prom at 10.15pm includes a piece by Jonathan Harvey (Undergraduate 1957-60, Honorary Fellow), a former pupil of George Guest. Mortuos plango, vivos voco is Harvey’s "haunting electronic amalgam of a Winchester Cathedral bell and the voice of his boy chorister son, and Louis Andriessen’s thrilling, hard-Minimalist musical clock."