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JOHN MACLEOD'S must read column: Remarkable story of our greatest Christmas carol (and my quiet delight at singing the tenor solo)
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December 21, 2023
It was a crisp, frosty Tuesday night in December 1983 and - in sole charge of light percussion - I was central, or so I liked to think, to the school orchestra's rollicking version of Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride on what remains a memorable Edinburgh occasion: the James Gillespie High School carol concert.