Girls Join Historic Choir at St. Paul's Cathedral

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https://www.newser.com/story/361505/girls-join-historic-choir-at-st-pauls-cathedral.html


For the first time in its 900-year history, St. Paul's Cathedral featured female choristers in its celebrated Christmas Day service. This historic moment came as two girls who joined the choir in June sang alongside the traditional choir comprising adult and child members. The performance took place under the iconic 365-foot dome, crafted by renowned architect Christopher Wren after the medieval cathedral was decimated in the 1666 Great Fire of London.

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1. There's a good reason for this, musically

Girls' voices retain the "treble" sound for a longer time than boys' voices do, before changing into a more womanly tone. In fact, girls can be trained to sing at that level until they are 16 or even older in some cases, whereas most boys' voices start to change around 12 or 13. Thus, girls are more "useful" musically, despite what all those stiff-backed old choirmasters would like you to believe!

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2. Interesting St Paul's fact: behind the high altar is a memorial chapel for the Americans based in Britain who were...

….killed in WWII. The Roll of Honor has the 28,000 names, handwritten, and the page is turned daily.

[Blue Owl]

3. Same with the Wells Cathedral choir

I enjoyed this video of one of my favorite yuletide works that I really love!

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4. beautiful