A cathedral’s decision to cut back the membership of its choir has sharpened anxieties that the Anglican choral tradition is under threat The Revd Jesse Jones, canon of Llandaff Cathedral and rector of Gelligaer in the Rhymney River  Valley from 1890 to 1930, would not have been amused by the present difficulties with the cathedral’s music, whereby, in the name of thrift, the chapter has sacked all but the boys. The canon watched the choir grow from its establishment in 1880 to a body of musicians whose mellifluous sound proved that Wales was indeed the Land of Song. Canon Jesse – I know this because he was my great-grandfather – put his two sons in the choir, to be followed eventually by grandsons and great-grandsons, to benefit from a ­tradition now und