Choral evensong at 3.30pm today will be the final Winchester service led by director of music Andrew Lumsden. A full house is expected with many singers and music lovers past and present driving in from afar.
The numbers will be seen as a protest against the cathedral administration, which has imposed silence on departing staff.
The bishop is conducting an inquiry. This is not over yet.
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann")
