CHORISTERS IN CHURCHES
‘TooMany Too Old’ (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, March, 21. A leading English authority on church music told 40 Sydney Anglican clergymen yesterday that sounds made by some of their elderly choristers were “too horrible for words.” Archbishop Gough invited the director of London’s Royal School of Church Music, Dr. Gerald Knight, to address clergymen at St. Andrew’s Cathedral chapter house. Dr. Knight sharply criticised many aspects of music in Sydney’s Anglican churches. He said he was greatly disturbed at the “great age” of many of the choristers in Sydney. “The average age in Sydney must be higher than any other diocese I have visited in the world,” he said. Only recently, he found an 84-year-old soprano chorister.
"The sound of some of these people is just too horrible for words,” he said “They are too old to do toe things expected of them, poor old dears.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29778, 22 March 1962, Page 8
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