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Article Title:	Glory Revealed
Author of reported comment:	Tony Greener
Comment Date:	16:17 on Jun 2 2008
Comment:	well, there used to be a cathedral choir school because I attended it and was also head boy of the choir for a year. The organist and choir master was Colin Ross who subsequently went to Sydney; his assistant was Brian Hesford who went I think to Chichester and later Graeme East. Somewhere I even have a recording made in around 1961/2; I left a year later. The school became the Grainger Grammar School (it was in Grainger Park Road) amnd existed until at least 1984 because I was in touch with it then. The buildings are now either private houses or, in one part, a centre for Turkish immigrants and, ironically, a mosque. When I attended the school had about 120 pupils all boys, from 7-8 when the entrance exam took place up to the age of 16. We nearly all went on to other schools for sixth form; I went to Dame Allans. I know that financial difficulties were experienced in the 1960s because my parents helped to form a PTA to raise funds. The academic standards also fell at that time. The school ahd originally ebe foudndf by the Cathedral clergy wih the aid of a trust (and the property) from a lady called Theresa Mirtz or Mertz, who was I think Jewish but presumably a Christian Jew. There were several Christian Jews as pupils. I still sing when time permits and my daughter is starting a career as a professinal singer and singing teacher. But we're a dying breed.

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