picture by permission from the Diocese of Leeds   Tim Harrison retired from his post as Director of Music at Middlesbrough Cathedral in November last year, at a time when the damage from eighteen months of Covid restrictions on schools singing and cathedral music was only too evident.  However he had reasons to be cheerful.  A major investment in schools singing via the National Schools Singing Programme is allowing Catholic Dioceses around the country to revive singing in schools and foster the next generation of potential church choristers, and Tim can hand over a well-funded new…