Cathedrals, Chapels, Organs, Choirs - Text

Canadian conductor, composer, organist, record producer and author Sarah MacDonald presents an entertaining collection of essays written from 2009 to 2022 detailing life as a musician working in the university chapels and cathedrals of the UK.

This lively, sometimes humorous and often moving account of the musical life of both the English cathedral and the university chapel will be a pleasure for all to read. Drawn from Sarah's monthly essays created for The American Organist, it features an introduction by John Rutter who notes, "With an insider's knowledge but an outsider's perspective, she lifts the lid on a choral tradition which is admired worldwide but mysterious in its inner workings to most of those not involved in it." Canadian-born organist and conductor Sarah MacDonald is Fellow and Director of Music at Selwyn College, Cambridge; University Organist; and Director of Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir. She is the first woman to hold such a post in an Oxbridge Chapel. 428 pages.