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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 recent evening, the 16 boys and 14 men of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, stood in the gothic chapel where they perform, spread out in the flickering candlelight. ....