#269: Once in Royal David's City
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lutheranhymnsWhat is the fun fact everyone always quotes about this song?
So at the Christmas Eve service of Lessons and Carols at Cambridge, this is always sung, and one of the treble young boys has a solo. But they don't tell them who it is so they don't freak out, just the moment they're going to start, the director points to someone and he sings the opening verse. So they all have to be ready to do it.
Lessons and Carols?
Just alternating a bunch of Bible stories with Christmas/Advent/etc. songs. I used to not be a fan of having to stand up all the time as a youngster in choir but the services have grown on me as I've gotten older, in part because it means no boring sermons. (Usually.)
Cambridge?
Yes, it's a famous university in England--
I know where Cambridge is, isn't the timezone difference pretty substantial?
I mean the public radio stations play it on repeat, there's not a lot else on Christmas Eve.
Nerds.
And/or people who just really enjoy good music even if they're sheepish about the role of religion in public society, I listened to a lot of public radio growing up.
So at the Christmas Eve service of Lessons and Carols at Cambridge, this is always sung, and one of the treble young boys has a solo. But they don't tell them who it is so they don't freak out, just the moment they're going to start, the director points to someone and he sings the opening verse. So they all have to be ready to do it.
Lessons and Carols?
Just alternating a bunch of Bible stories with Christmas/Advent/etc. songs. I used to not be a fan of having to stand up all the time as a youngster in choir but the services have grown on me as I've gotten older, in part because it means no boring sermons. (Usually.)
Cambridge?
Yes, it's a famous university in England--
I know where Cambridge is, isn't the timezone difference pretty substantial?
I mean the public radio stations play it on repeat, there's not a lot else on Christmas Eve.
Nerds.
And/or people who just really enjoy good music even if they're sheepish about the role of religion in public society, I listened to a lot of public radio growing up.
