Classical music fans will know of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church. The ensemble founded there by Sir Neville Marriner, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, is one of the most recorded chamber orchestras in the world. The church continues as a music venue, and classical and other performances can be enjoyed there almost daily. St Martin sat long ago in the fields of a burial ground situated outside the Roman city of Londinium. Across from the church now you see Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery.

On our second night in London, we heard a jazz concert performed in the café of St Martin’s crypt. A quartet led by Irish pianist and composer John Donegan entertained us with jazz standards and new compositions, one of which evoked the waterfall at Powerscourt, south of Dublin.

We returned to St. Martin-in-the-Fields with friends from Paris on Saturday. The London Concertante performed in the church itself, in a program that consisted of pieces by Mozart, Vivaldi and Bach.