This extract from one Peter Tranchell's CVs was included in the Programme for the 2005 Commemoration Weekend.

Peter Tranchell's grave is in Wolvercote cemetery (north Oxford), No 11 Section H3, next to James.

James was PAT's brother, who died aged 13 in an accident on 29th September 1938.

The inscriptions

JAMES TRANCHELL
DIED Sept 29 1938. AGED 13.
HEAD OF THE DRAGON SCHOOL
Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing,
Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.

(from Robert Louis Stephenson's poem 'In memoriam F.A.S.').

PETER ANDREW
TRANCHELL
14.7.1922 - 14.9.1993
LOVING BROTHER OF
JAMES PHILLIPS
TRANCHELL

During the 1969 tour to Norfolk, the choir sang Mattins at St. Peter's Church, Brooke, 10 a.m. Sunday 22 June 1969.

The image gallery below contains scanned pages from the booklet used by members of the choir. A copy was kindly provided by John Williams, who played Viola in the Introit Hymn:

My memory of this (I was the viola player) is that we all had to gradually process in, singing, during the hymn, then pick up our instruments and join in, hence the orchestration getting thicker in each verse as the players arrived at the east end. Quite mad!

Order of service:

Introit Hymn: At the name of Jesus (words: Caroline Maria Noel (1817–1877), music: Michael Brierley (b.1932), arr. Peter Tranchell (1922-1993))
Preces and Responses - Smith
Venite Exultemus Domino - single Ouseley chant in E major
Psalm 150 - Peter Tranchell's setting (score and information)
Te Deum - Stanford in C
Benedictus - Lang in A
Anthem - I was glad, Parry
Hymn 701 (EDEN)
Sermon Rev. Prof. Geoffrey Lampe
Hymn 160 (NICAEA)
Organ voluntary (unspecified)

We are pleased to announce that the Charity Commission has approved the registration of The Peter Tranchell Foundation as a Community Interest Organisation (a legal vehicle with limited liability for charitable organisations).

IN PREP

We were contacted recently by someone who remembers Peter Tranchell's radio broadcasts on music and theatre, wondering whether