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Every Christmas Eve, a Lone Choir Boy Sings to More Than 370 Million
CAMBRIDGE, England — At 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve, as shadows lengthen, candles flicker, and a solemn quiet envelops the medieval chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, the music director there, will point to one of his boy choristers. The boy — who won’t know in advance that he’s the chosen one — will steel himself and sing into the darkness the first verse of “Once in Royal David’s City”: Plaintively alone, but heard around the world.
Every Christmas Eve, a Lone Choir Boy Sings to More Than 370 Million
CAMBRIDGE, England — At 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve, as shadows lengthen, candles flicker, and a solemn quiet envelops the medieval chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, the music director there, will point to one of his boy choristers. The boy — who won’t know in advance that he’s the chosen one — will steel himself and sing into the darkness the first verse of “Once in Royal David’s City”: Plaintively alone, but heard around the world.
