Congratulations to Tamsin, Abdou, and their friends from Passamezzo and elsewhere for a remarkable performance in church on the evening of Ascension Day.

Part concert, part prayer, it drew together musicians of different faiths to explore musical connections between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Who knew that an Ottoman version of the Psalter was published in the seventeenth century? I certainly didn’t. Nor had I heard of the sixteenth-century composer Salamone Rossi, a sort of Hebrew Monteverdi. The thunderous standing ovation at the end said it all – Anders

(thanks to Graham Young for the photo)