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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is an English Anglican choir. It was created by King Henry VI , who founded King's College, Cambridge , in 1441, to provide daily singing in his Chapel , which remains the main task of the choir to this day.
The world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, consists of choral scholars, organ scholars [20] (male students at the college), and choristers (boys educated at the nearby King's College School). From 1982 until shortly before his death on 22 November 2019 the director of music for the choir was Sir Stephen Cleobury.
Sir Stephen John Cleobury CBE (/ ˈ k l iː b ər i / KLEE-bər-ee; 31 December 1948 – 22 November 2019) [1] [2] was an English organist and music director.He worked with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, where he served as music director from 1982 to 2019, and with the BBC Singers.
King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4] This college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city. King's was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI soon after founding its sister institution, Eton ...
Evensong is a church service traditionally held near sunset focused on singing psalms and other biblical canticles. It is loosely based on the canonical hours of vespers and compline . Old English speakers translated the Latin word vesperas as æfensang , which became 'evensong' in modern English.
Philip Radcliffe had his first sight of Cambridge in December 1923 when he sat for a scholarship examination. "I attended evensong in the Chapel of my future College and can still recall the impact made upon me by the quiet, other-world sound of the choir singing Remember, O thou man."
The choir is also open to singers from other colleges, as well as staff and fellows from within the college. The majority of the choir are King's students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), however. The choir sings evensong on Mondays in the University term. In addition to this, other services such as compline are occasionally sung by King ...
He was Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge from 1974 to 1982, and conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society from 1973 to 1982. During his Cambridge years, he directed the Choir of King's College in the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols , made an extensive range of recordings, and took the choir to the United States, to ...