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The article does a poor job of linking to the chord, or to the verse in question. It comes after the 6th verse (featuring a descant, where the highest voices s
by muglug 4y ago
The article does a poor job of linking to the chord, or to the verse in question.
It comes after the 6th verse (featuring a descant, where the highest voices sing above the tune).
The 7th verse is all in unison, which makes the chord stand out more.
David Willcocks (whose arrangement this article discusses) used to conduct a big christmas concert every year at the Royal Albert Hall, sung a choir he conducted called the Bach Choir. For that concert he added a brass fanfare & accompaniment on top of everything else, which brings everything to another level. I went a few years in a row when I was a young boy, and it gave me some incredibly happy memories (including meeting Willcocks).
Here’s the whole seventh verse with brass, sung by that choir and conducted by Willcocks: https://youtu.be/YG2woiVsJrc?t=199 https://youtu.be/YG2woiVsJrc?t=199.
The current conductor of that choir (David Hill) is quoted in the article.
- jannyfer 4y agoI appreciate your link but I thought the article did a decent job. It says the chord comes halfway through the final verse, and then has an embedded youtube video of the whole song.
- muglug 4y agoYeah, I suppose, but it's a little like linking to a JPEG by saying "it's two thirds of the way down this HTML page". They could have easily updated the embed to start at the 7th verse.
- samdunham 4y agoThe link in the first paragraph basically takes you right to it. There's a second or so of lead time, but coupled with the text, it's pretty easy to get.