Easter is always a busy time for cathedral musicians and this year was no exception with choral services on every day of the Triduum and Festival Eucharist and Evensong on Easter Sunday itself. There was also a liturgical performance of Charles Wood’s St Mark Passion on the evening of Good Friday.
However, in the minds of 26 young choristers, all of this was a mere prelude to something much more exciting: the prospect of an epic voyage by land and sea to a distant country, sleeping in bunk beds for four nights and, to cap it all, missing a…
