For the evening of Palm Sunday at 6.30pm All Saints' choir will present the cantata 'Olivet to Calvary' which recalls scenes from the final few days of Christ's life on earth.  It will be sung by the choir and guest soloists, and includes congregational hymns reflecting on the scenes.  One 1920s critic wrote of this work that 'There is always a fresh and apparently inexhaustible flow of melodic ideas and the harmonic fabric is always full of interest and colour ...'

'Olivet to Calvary' was composed in 1904 by John Henry Maunder (1858-1920) using words by Shapcott Wensley, and became a favourite of church musicians.  Maunder himself was a church organist as well as a composer, and is said to have worked at Christchurch, Sutton, not far from Banstead.

Everyone is welcome to come (and take part in the hymns) - there is no charge, though contributions to a retiring collection in aid of All Saints' would be very welcome.