Once In Royal David's City : Westminster Cathedral Choir

The choir of Westminster Cathedral and the congregation open the service of Midnight Mass (2009) with the traditional carol Once In Royal David's City. An excellent solo to begin and a wonderful descant to finish.

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Music

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• Once
• In
• Royal
• David's
• City
• Westminster
• Cathedral
• Choir
• Midnight
• Mass
• Christmas
• Carol
• Treble
• Choral

[treble6wccs]

hey, im the guy who sung the solo

[drwestbury]

Then I congratulate you most heartily. I first heard you at the Christmas concert on 16th Dec and said then that you had a glorious voice. I shall be at the Cathedral on Ash Wednesday and hope you sing the solo on Alegri's Miserere. Thank you for singing for us.

[tomsaltsman]

In all fairness to Mastersingers, though, the entire choir can stay on pitch without instruments for very long periods. We did so in performance many times.

[tomsaltsman]

I am a trained tenor and instrumentalist myself, born in Sacramento, CA, and made a living as a singer/musician in San Francisco. After moving to San Antonio, TX, in 2003, I auditioned for the "symphony chorus" here called Mastersingers. To prove I could stay on pitch, I asked to audition without accompianment. I sang "Salve Regina" and only went SLIGHTLY sharp when finished; at least I didn't go flat. It's good ear training, though.

[MrSinnical]

@tomsaltsman

If you ever heard how hard these boys practice you would understand. The soloist is an amazing musician though, can play and sing just about anything.

[tomsaltsman]

It's so amazing that for two entire verses, the hymn is sung WITHOUT instruments and DOES NOT GO FLAT! The organ comes in the exact pitch that it was started! Very difficult for even a professional adult choir! But Catholics usually have all the self-discipline of a headless chicken. The only musicians they worry about offending are the patholigically conceited, not God or the truly gifted. As a Catholic musician, I so often hear, "But he's lead the choir since he was five years old!"

[OraCarols]

@treble6wccs amazing

[istgone]

@moppettshow Uncalled for.

[kamilla1960]

@joffryvangrondelle You're right, only most Roman Catholic churches neglect the musical tradition.

[joffryvangrondelle]

@kamilla1960 well catholic means nothing more then '' in general'' thereis Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Greek Orthodox Catholic, Russian Catholic etc,. so Roman cathilic Music is still some different then Anglican music, but at the end we are all members of the catholic united church of God while local/national churchnames are irrelevant.

[kamilla1960]

@shervinjb That's encouraging.

[shervinjb]

@kamilla1960 Not true, When I went to midnight mass at my Catholic Church, I heard & we all sang great Catholic Christmas Carols. =)