OM88. Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli at St John's College Chapel, Cambridge. The Choral setting of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli (c.1562) at St John's College yesterday evening was so extraordinary that I have had to take several hours to think about what to say about it. This was the first performance by St John's new Director of Music, Christopher Gray, who has just completed 20 years at Truro cathedral and is well known for the integration of girls and young women into the choir at Truro, a choir that will emigrate to London to sing at the King Charle III's Coronation on 6 th May where it will be under the Westminster Abbey Director of Music Anrdew Netsingha, who was, until December last year, Director of Music at St John's College. This Palestrina Mass is a major work, and has been regularly sung at the coronations of Pontiffs. The service started with a strong baritone solo voice singing the Introit for the day, as the choir and clergy pro