 Darlow took over thereafter and at the time of his appointment was a senior professor at the Royal College of Music, Director of Music at St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, and had for many years been director of the Tilford Bach Festival and London Handel Festival.The choir spent the next ten years moving forward from the Bach Festival legacy and building on its reputation for exploring works in the choral canon.Stephen Dodgson's Te Deum was performed in October 1982 as a part of the last Bach Festival at which the choir sung.