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I would have thought that seven years is would at least allow a DoM to achieve something with the choir or not as the case may be.

I have stated many times before that I think that ideally all these appointments should be on ten year contracts initially.

In some places there has been the football club manager syndrome - a new one very three/four years or less!!

VCC

[Miles Coverdale]

I would have thought that seven years would at least allow a DoM to achieve something with the choir or not as the case may be.

I have stated many times before that I think that ideally all these appointments should be on ten year contracts initially.

In some places there has been the football club manager syndrome - a new one very three/four years or less!!

VCC

I can't see how either party would agree to a ten-year contract.

The football manager analogy is not really appropriate - with a football club the manager is (usually) replaced by the board after bad results. In the case of a cathedral organist, it's usually a case of him/her deciding to leave, for whatever reason.

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MC

To leave after four years is really not fair on the cathedrals unless the appointment was a complete disaster or there is a breakdown in relationships etc.

One cathedral Dean told me that the appointment of a new DoM was a long and exhausting haul and a process he would not relish having to go through too often.

VCC

[muticus]

Not least the acknowledged cost of replacing a member of any senior staff team being roughly one years salary. Not something you want to undertake too often....