“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― from TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By Virginia Woolf, 1927
2023年12月9日 星期六
再多談2020年午夜平安：The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.In dulci jubilo | Carols from King's 2020. fire-ravaged Notre Dame rings in Christmas.Fundación ”la Caixa”
再多談2020年午夜平安：The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.In dulci jubilo | Carols from King's 2020. fire-ravaged Notre Dame rings in Christmas.Fundación ”la Caixa”
King’s College’s Chapel is one of the Cambridge's most adored buildings. Yet, it very nearly didn’t happen as building was interrupted following the imprisonment of King Henry VI during the Wars of the Roses. But work recommenced during the reign of Richard III and was completed by Henry VII and Henry VIII, making it a true ‘work of kings’.
Today, visitors are wowed by the largest fan-vaulted ceiling in the world, the 26 Renaissance stained-glass windows and the Rubens’ painting, The Adoration of the Magi.
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
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.
A few of the choristers gazed at the vaulted ceiling about 80 feet above them. Then Daniel Hyde, the choir’s music director, signaled that he was ready to begin, and all slipped off the masks they had been wearing to sing “I Saw Three Ships,” a sprightly carol that will be heard by about 100 million people on Thursday.
Each Christmas Eve, the choir’s “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” is broadcast live on radio stations worldwide, including about 450 in the United States. (A separate service, “Carols from King’s,” recorded weeks in advance, is shown on BBC television in Britain.)
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The choir’s adult members are students at the University of Cambridge.Credit...Tom Jamieson for The New York Times ****https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoc-TbVxXBc
In dulci jubilo | Carols from King's 2020
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Text:
In dulci jubilo [In quiet joy]
Let us our homage show
Our heart’s joy reclineth
In praesepio [in a manger]
And like a bright star shineth
Matris in gremio! [in the mother’s lap]
Alpha es et O! [Thou art Alpha & Omega]
O Jesu parvule [O tiny Jesus]
I yearn for Thee alway;
Listen to my ditty,
O puer optime! [O best of boys]
Have pity on me, pity
O princeps gloriae! [Prince of glory]
Trahe me post te! [draw me unto thee]
O patris caritas, [O father’s caring]
O nati lenitas, [O newborn’s mildness]
Deeply were we stained
Per nostra crimina [by our crimes]
But Thou, hast for us gainèd
Coelorum gaudia. [heavenly joy]
O that we were there!
Ubi sunt gaudia [where be joys]
If that they be not there?
There are angels singing
Nova cantica: [new songs]
There the bells are ringing
In Regis curia. [at the king’s court]
O that we were there!
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With choir in hard hats, fire-ravaged Notre Dame rings in Christmas
Story by Reuters
Updated 1649 GMT (0049 HKT) December 25, 2020
Soprano Julie Fuchs and the Notre Dame cathedral choir recorded the Christmas concert on December 19.
ParisFor the first time since a fire that nearly destroyed it, the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris played host to a Christmas Eve choral concert, an annual tradition in France.
In a concession to the fact that the Gothic cathedral is still being rebuilt, the choristers wore construction hard hats and boiler suits, and there was no audience.
The concert was recorded at the cathedral earlier this month, and was broadcast on French television just before midnight on Thursday.
The choristers performed classical pieces by composers Mozart and Schubert, but also a more light-hearted repertoire, including "Jingle Bells."
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