THE KINGS COLLEGE CHOIR CAMBRIDGE REHEARSING FOR THE CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE WHICH IS BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD
THE KINGS COLLEGE CHOIR CAMBRIDGE REHEARSING FOR THE CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE WHICH IS BROADCAST AROUND THE WORLD. Choristers have been busy rehearsing for one of the world's most famous carol services at King's College Chapel on Christmas 16 boys have spent weeks practising for the hugely popular A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols which is performed live every year and also broadcast on BBC 2 and BBC Radio incredible 40 million people across the globe tune into the traditional 1919 it has always begun with a lone choirboy singing Once in Royal David's City, but he will not be chosen until the last moment to prevent unnecessary promises to be the performance of his life for the young chorister who could be aged between nine and boys will line up in King's College Chapel in front of the choral scholars, made up of altos, tenors and basses, who are all undergraduates, shortly before 3pm on Christmas service was first held at King's College in Cambridge in 1918 and the BBC began broadcasting it 10 years idea originated in Truro, Cornwall, where a service consisting of nine carols alternating with nine lessons had been held since 1880 with the intention of keeping the men out of the pubs on Christmas was later introduced to King's by the college's new Dean, Eric Milner-White, who wanted to make worship more 1928 the service has been broadcast live by the BBC every year, except was even held during the war years when the chapel was freezing because its glass and heating had been the carols can be heard from New Zealand to Nigeria and from Barbados to service is repeated on BBC Radio 3 on Christmas Day.
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