SALISBURY – David Halls isn’t a doctor, nurse or ambulance driver, but he wanted to contribute in the fight against COVID-19.
So he did what he does best: He sat down on the bench beside at Salisbury Cathedral’s historic organ and began to play.Halls is one of the many people who have turned the 800-year-old cathedral in southwestern England into a mass vaccination center as the U.K.
races to inoculate 50 million people. His contribution to the effort is offering a bit of Bach, Handel and even a little Rodgers & Hammerstein to the public as they shuffle through the nave to get their shots.“At times of crisis, people come together and want to listen to music; at moments of joy, people want to listen to music,’’ Halls, the cathedral’s music.