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Experience the live broadcast of this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings College, Cambridge. Despite the pandemic, the choir was able to record and broadcast this year's service from the chapel without congregation. You can imagine the ambiance of this annual tradition from home.
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This holy week of Christmas we celebrate the tradition of Lessons and Carols. A tradition first started at Kings College, Cambridge in the wake of World War I, every year the famous Kings College Choir of Men and Boys presents this famous service. Christmas would not be complete without it!
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This weeks playlist focuses on Mary, mother of Jesus. From Gabriel's message of joy to Mary's loving response, this part of the Christmas story is told beautifully in music of many traditions.
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Advent is a time to pause, listen, and prepare ourselves for Jesus' coming. It is also the season for some of the best hymns in our tradition. Enjoy this playlist of hymns and anthems all about the expectation of Jesus' coming in Bethlehem and at the end coming at the end of days in judgement.
Enjoy all the music HERE, Or sample each piece in the player below.  Brian prepares lumber for the bellows. by Alex Benestelli Work is underway on our new pipe organ at Parsons Pipe Organ Builders. Located in Canandaigua, a beautiful part of the "finger lakes" region of upstate New York, the Parsons team is a fourth generation family business. Their skilled craftmanship dates all the way back to the 1800s. Here you can see the beginnings of the wind reservoirs for our instrument. Reservoirs are large box-like structures that regulate the wind pressure going to the wind chests and ultimately the organ pipes themselves. It is important for the organ to maintain consistent pressure so all the pipes produce the same tone and quality. "We’ve modified our regulator design for this organ to include a mounting frame. This will allow the leathered portion of the regulator (ribs and floating top) to be detached from the large well for future restoration. This is important here, given the limited space under the divisional wind chests for the winding system," said Ric Parsons, President of Parsons Pipe Organ Builders. Since this organ will last more than 100 years, it is important that we plan for restoration such as replacing leather components 40 or 50 years from now. You can see the design of the reservoirs below and the way they feed wind into the organ. Read the full article complete with more photos and diagrams HERE.  CNC machine cuts pieces to exact measurements.
Advent reminds of the great prophecies of Isaiah set so beautifully to music by George Frederick Handel. Enjoy this performance of the "Christmas" portion of Handel's great oratorio performed by John Elliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
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