One could view the venue and read the music lists for the week of Evensongs the choir of St. Clement's, St. Paul, Minn., sang at Westminster Abbey. On the web, one could do just about everything but hear the choir that sang every hymn in the Hymnal 1982 one Saturday last spring. That "hymnathon" [TLC, July 22] raised a good bit of the funds needed to send the singers, and choirmaster Douglas Shambo, to England, to sing Byrd and Howells, Britten and Stanford, in the glorious Abbey that was dedicated in 1065.

The choir dedicated each day's music to a special purpose. Through "The Chimes," St. Clement's on-line and print newsletter, the congregation was asked to pray with them for "the friendship of the two nations, and for the Anglican Communion," for the 28-year leadership of former organist/choirmaster Stanford Lehmberg, for those in need, and on the final service, Friday evening, "for the ministry of music."