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December 28, 2020 Sixteen boys make up the treble voices of the Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, which sings in the annual A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Kevin Leighton A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is no longer available. Sponsor News feature By Colleen Phelps Christmas Eve at Kings College, Cambridge, usually follows the same routine. Theres a morning sound check, a lunch break, and then once the choirs are lined up to start, a red signal light flashes. One b...

How Covid has changed the tune of the carol service Churches and cathedrals have upped their game to meet demand with ingenious ways to let the music play on 24 December 2020 • 6:00am The King’s College choir in Cambridge preparing to record the Christmas carol service with no congregation for TV Credit: Geoff Robinson Photography Glad tidings! Some shared traditions are surviving in the December darkness of this Covid Christmas. As it has been since 1928, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Ca...

‘We felt like the SAS of choirs’: welcome to a Carols from King’s like no other The race to save the nation’s favourite Christmas broadcast, in this annus horribilis, went down to the wire. How did they pull it off? 24 December 2020 • 6:00am Kings College Cambridge Choir in December 2019  Credit: Benjamin Sheen For many, Christmas actually begins with Carols from King’s, broadcast on BBC2 on Christmas Eve. The last work e-mail has been sent, the mince pies are warming, and though ...

A Choir Tries to Keep Its Christmas Tradition Alive The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, spent months rehearsing for its Christmas Eve service, which is broadcast worldwide. Its hope was to perform it live. The choir’s Dec. 1 rehearsal was recorded in case the ensemble’s famous Christmas Eve “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” could not go ahead.Credit...Photographs by Tom Jamieson for The New York Times Published Dec. 22, 2020Updated Dec. 23, 2020 CAMBRIDGE, England — On a rec...

Lessons and Carols from King’s Broadcast to be Prerecorded Amy Spagna The service has been broadcast live from a packed chapel on Christmas Eve for over 90 years, but for safety reasons it had previously been decided that no congregation could be present this year. In the face of Covid-19, King’s also decided to make a recording of the service a few weeks before Christmas as an additional precaution. In the light of current conditions, it is this recording of 2020’s A Fest...