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Here's a review of a concert that took place as part of the Proms at St Jude's in June 2012 written by Michael White of The Telegraph.

“The royal jubilee celebration concert given later in the week by an amateur group, the Cavendish Ensemble and Singers, whose members all have day jobs with John Lewis.

Being amateur, there were fallibilities. But everybody on the platform played and sang as though they meant it – with dimension, passion and miraculously forthright trumpets of the high, piercing baroque kind necessary for things like Handel’s coronation anthems and his Royal Fireworks music. Packaged with Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate (as performed at Charles’s wedding to Diana, which presumably is why it counts as “royal”) and Parry’s I Was Glad (a coronation standard), it was all so stirringly upbeat I felt exhausted by the end – but in a good way.

And Manvinder Rattan’s purposeful conducting was impressive – as was his appearance in appropriately majestic Indian dress. More glamorous (and practical) than tails, this could catch on.”

Here's an article in The Sunday Telegraph about what makes the John Lewis Partnership different, with a chunk about the Music Society and Manvinder:

Dubrovnik 2012