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Article: Culture: So much more than a cheerleader to city choir; Christopher Robinson steps down this weekend after conducting the City of Birmingham Choir for nearly 40 years. Christopher Morley went to meet him.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2002
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Byline: Christopher Morley
On Saturday, Christopher Robinson will step on to the Symphony Hall podium to direct his lastever concert as principal conductor of the City of Birmingham Choir.
His 38-year tenure has seen him move in day-job terms from organist and director of music at Worcester Cathedral, through St George's Chapel, Windsor, to St John's College, Cambridge. He had just returned from a gruelling fortnight's visit to the United States with the choir of St John's when I spoke to him at his Cambridge home and asked him what his almost four decades ...