Comments on: king’s college choir

By: The Lone Elm

The Lone Elm — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:31:18 +0000

Christmas Music

I agree with Hugh MacLeod at GapingVoid, that Christmas is not Christmas without the Kings College Choir Carol Service. As my children and husband know, I love Christmas music, breaking it out right after Thanksgiving, and not putting it away

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:20:56 +0000

You’re right, Andreas… Radio 4, not Radio 3. Thanks.

By: J.D. Iles

J.D. Iles — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:53:05 +0000

In other Christmas event news:
Don’t forget to watch Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion 7pm on BBC1
You lucky brits get to see it first!
BASTARDS!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/doctorwho/ram/xmas_trail_gerkinsmash?size=16x9&bgc=CC0000&nbram=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:44:12 +0000

I sincerely hope you’re not taking the piss Hugh because it’s confession time.
I was lead chorister in the Luton Church choir. At the time (1964), we were among the dogs nuts of UK church choirs.
Sounds schmaltzy, but I got to meet Prince Philip one time and Princess Margaret another. If you believe in any form of tradition, you can’t help but cherish those memories.

By: Andreas Duess

Andreas Duess — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:27 +0000

Just as a heads up, I think the service is actually broadcast on Radio 4, not Radio 3.
As it will be 10 in the morning over here I’ll be setting Audio Hijack to record it.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:04:06 +0000

“Adam Lay Y’Bounden
Bounden in a bond
Four thousand winters
thought he not too long…”
Yep. Sang that also. Short and dark. Great stuff.

By: Adrian McEwen

Adrian McEwen — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:04:25 +0000

I was just talking about this with my girlfriend this morning after we noticed the Radio 3 outside broadcast truck parked outside King’s College when I was dropping her off for work

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:02:05 +0000

Choral singing rocks — I’ve never experienced any feeling quite like the one when all the voices gel and the entire choir seems to levitate for a few moments. Magical.
But unlike you two girly men, I was an alto. Favourite carols: “Adam Lay Y’Bounden” (check out the language in that — superb) and “Quelle est cette odeur agreable?”
Favourite choral moment: singing Morning Mass at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Transcendent.

By: Robert Paterson

Robert Paterson — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:23:39 +0000

Hey Hugh
We share the same experience. I too was a boy treble. All but a professional singer with 3 practices and 8 services a week.
I was listening to In the Bleak Mid winter yesterday and tears came to my eyes as I was trasported back all those years ago to when I was a boy