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"To keep costs to a minimum, we tend to sing without accompaniment."

I only joined Gaudete a few years before you, G, but I am pretty sure the intention at the choir's founding back in the seventies was to sing the (mainly Renaissance) unaccompanied repertoire because of the excellence of the music and not to save money. Other Dublin choirs doing the same, for the same reason, include(d) the St Cecilia Singers and Camerata singers.

That may be so, R, but every so often we want to sing something accompanied, and it is immediately shot down as we can't afford it.

If only Gaudete stuck to Renaissance music I might still be there . . .

...and I probably wouldn't. I like the variety.

Ah. I just can't get enough. Even though I play the same two-part Lassus pieces with my viol pupils year after year I can't tire of them. Each one has the classical purity of the Ruy Lopez.