Jessye Norman has taken her voice to a higher choir. In memoriam I offer two versions of one of my favorite choir anthems, Donald Fraser's This Christmastide, a.k.a. Jessye's Carol.
With Ms. Norman herself:
and with the American Boy Choir. Our choir sang this back in the late 1990's, and the memory still moves me. I find it almost as powerful to listen to as to sing.
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I had never heard this song.
Posted by
Kathy Lewis
on Tuesday, October 01, 2019 at 12:53 pm
Neither had I until we sang it. I was delighted, years later, to find the American Boy Choir version, and only now found the version with Jessye Norman singing. YouTube can be quite a resource!
Posted by
SursumCorda
on Tuesday, October 01, 2019 at 2:46 pm
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