A Very Last Reference to Christmas Music

January 8, 2010

While Americans commonly exert themselves to make their Christmas celebrations as Olde Englishe as possible, I think it deserves remark that the superb choir of Westminster Cathedral took both of their two Christmas Midnight motets from the corpus of contemporary American composition. Fortunately, they are preserved on YouTube as only the incomparable BBC television directors can present such events:

Posted by rogerevans

Filed in On the Fly ·Tags: Eric Whitacre, Martin Baker, Morten Lauridsen, Westminster Cathedral

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