Tonight’s Loughborough University Choir concert went very well. We did a whole range of pieces from the music-hall sing-along of “Daisy” (Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do) to the epic “Hiawatha’s Wedding” supported by about 20 members of the university orchestra.

If I had to pick one personal favourite though it would be “I Am Come Into My Garden” by William Billings. The words are based on the Song of Solomon from the Bible and it was composed in the late 18th century. Billings was an idiosyncratic figure who died in poverty in his mid fifties but I love the sound of this piece (from the late work The Continental Harmony) and it makes me want to track down more music by him.