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That Christmas Eve night, I had fallen asleep to the sound of the great bells in the church tower down the street pealing for midnight mass but the ringing that woke me just a few hours later was a sharper, shriller sound. Last night, before going to bed and just as the church bells began, I had closed the door of Skeldale House behind me and walked into the market place. Nothing stirred in the white square stretching smooth and cold and empty under the moon, and there was a Dickens look about the ring of houses and shops put together long before anybody thought of town planning; tall and short, fat and thin, squashed in crazily around the cobbles, their snow-burdened roofs jagged and uneven against the frosty sky. ....
How Covid has changed the tune of the carol service Churches and cathedrals have upped their game to meet demand with ingenious ways to let the music play on 24 December 2020 • 6:00am The King’s College choir in Cambridge preparing to record the Christmas carol service with no congregation for TV Credit: Geoff Robinson Photography Glad tidings! Some shared traditions are surviving in the December darkness of this Covid Christmas. As it has been since 1928, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, will be a reassuring presence after an upside-down year at 3pm today (Christmas Eve) on BBC Radio 4, while following over on BBC 2 at 5.30pm ....
‘We felt like the SAS of choirs’: welcome to a Carols from King’s like no other The race to save the nation’s favourite Christmas broadcast, in this annus horribilis, went down to the wire. How did they pull it off? 24 December 2020 • 6:00am King s College Cambridge Choir in December 2019 Credit: Benjamin Sheen For many, Christmas actually begins with Carols from King’s, broadcast on BBC2 on Christmas Eve. The last work e-mail has been sent, the mince pies are warming, and though it’s really too early for a drink you’re going to have one anyway. You switch on the telly, and that lovely sound of the lone treble begins “Once in Royal David’s City”. ....
The creator of the popular emoji quizzes that proved a hit on social media during the national lockdowns has returned with a festive-themed quiz. Nikki Spiers, 31, of London, unwittingly became an international sensation when the cryptic quiz she sent to friends via WhatsApp was shared around the world - and has even created her own Instagram page sharing the famous quizzes. With Christmas around the corner, Nikki has created a festive-themed quiz where players try to work out the Christmas carols and songs from nothing other than a series of emojis. Do you think you can guess them all? Scroll down to take the test and then check your answer at the bottom of the story. ....
Bolton School stages drive in carol concert A SCHOOL staged a drive-in carol service. Bolton School girls division was determined to stage live, in front of an audience, its traditional Ceremony of Carols. And using the school quadrant, the first drive-in performance was held. The quad was transformed into concert hall for cars, with 75 pulling vehicles pulling in, with the stunning school buildings illuminated especially for the event. A school spokesman said: In a skilfully choreographed evening, socially distanced choirs sang in the school’s Great Hall, their voices amplified through the speaker system, the Year Nine choir sang through open windows looking out onto the audience below and an outdoor stage under a gazebo was utilised for solo performers and speakers. ....