[2] In the beginning the choir was run by a group of three adults: John Andrewes, who also led the Finchley Children's Music Group, Rosamund Strode, a musician, singer and later assistant to Britten, and Jonathan Steele,[3] deputy to George Malcolm at Westminster Cathedral.
The choir also sang at the Aldeburgh Festival, gave a concert to the choristers at King's College Cambridge and broadcast A Ceremony of Carols on BBC television (1965).
Members of the choir also performed as street urchins in a BBC television production of "La Boheme" (1966).
[8] It also recorded 'The happy wanderer' for RCA Victor, and two Christmas songs with the Music Academy (London Jazz Quartet) for CBS which featured on Juke Box Jury.
[citation needed] Britten wrote 12 Apostles: Choral Octavo and [9] The Bitter Withy for the choir[10] and his arrangement of King Herod and the Cock was dedicated to it.