A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

[TheTecknician]

A reminder that this will be broadcast live from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve. 3pm on Radio 4.

That last post was for @IAm16StoneHalloween2024

Attending in person for the Christmas Eve service:

It used to be turn up and queue. Relatively recently you could queue for tickets earlier in the morning, go away and come back for the service.
Now it’s done by ballot.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was first conceived as a gift to the City of Cambridge and it is that spirit that the College makes approximately half the tickets for this service available to members of the public. Tickets are distributed in advance to those who are successful in the annual ballot.

My dad wrote to Stephen Cleobury in the early 80s complaining about the breathing 😮
He got a lovely letter back: "with the possible exception of the boy concerned, no-one was more disappointed than I that nerves spoilt the opening"

Usually it's fine. And the organist has spent the last 5-10 minutes playing a piece with D-F#-G so any vaguely musical child would probably find it impossible to sing the wrong notes!

@SqueakyDinosaur it's the Easter TV service that's filmed out of sequence, because they do them at the same time (which is probably why they have such massive lights outside the windows).

@TamiTaylorIsMyParentingGuru is your friend the director of Kings Voices? if so I know his mum 😃