GIRLS TO THE RESCUE

The earliest girl choristers in cathedral choirs were at St Davids Cathedral, which had girls in the choir well before Salisbury or St Edmondsbury (Letters, May 2017). In an interview broadcast on 1 March 1970 on BBC Two, the then-organist of St Davids Peter Boorman entertainingly described how the boy choristers failed to show up to a rehearsal for a forthcoming choral evensong broadcast. The situation was rescued by girls from the local grammar school, who thereafter became fixtures in the choir. Tom Halliwell, St Davids