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Title: BBC Angelic Voices, The Choristers Of Salisbury Cathedral 2012
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Type.................: TV Series
Part Size............: 75,000,000
Number of Parts......: 15
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Posted by............: johncymru
Posted to............: alt.binaries.documentaries
Posted on............: 20141121
Original Air Date....: 20120712
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f6tb8
Child choristers have been singing at Salisbury for 900 years. This film - an
observational portrait, history and musical immersion in one of Britain's most
distinctive and beloved cultural traditions - follows Salisbury Cathedral's
current choristers over Easter and through the summer term of 2011.
Salisbury Cathedral's separate boy and girl choirs each contain 16 of the most
musically gifted eight-to-13 year-olds in the country. Their role, now as
always, is to sing some of the most sublime music ever written in one of
Britain's most beautiful buildings. Indeed there are many who believe the
chorister's pure, clear, treble voice is the finest instrument in all music.
The film spends four months with the choristers as they go about their day-to-
day lives, discovering their own history and singing some of the most loved
music from a sacred canon spanning six centuries from medieval plainsong to the
present day. Under the direction of indefatigable choir master David Halls,
they rehearse and perform works by Sheppard, Byrd, Purcell, Handel, Mozart,
Stanford, Parry, Alcock and Rutter.
Lining up in his black cloak, ten-year-old Alex says he feels like Harry Potter
while Freddie, 12, admits that "other children think we are weird and actually
we are not''. Yet few children perhaps have the poise or conviction of Susanna,
10, who explains "singing for choristers is part of them. If you said to me
'you're not allowed to sing anymore', it would be just like me telling you that
you can't see your child anymore." It is doubtful that Salisbury's early
choristers, often so hungry they were forced to beg for bread, thought so
fondly of their work. But when plainsong turned to polyphony the choristers'
plight was transformed - with the top cathedrals in the late middle ages known
to pay Premiership-style transfer fees for the most musically gifted boys, some
of whom were even kidnapped by rival cathedrals. Today's top trebles at
Salisbury are seen competing for one of the most famed solos in a chorister's
repertoire. Will Finnbar, Freddie or Noah be picked for Stanford's Mag in G?
The girls' choir was founded in 1991, Salisbury being the first Church of
England cathedral to grant girl choristers full equality. Yet even today the
dean, June Osborne, says she gets "offensive letters from people who say we
have sold the pass with the English choral tradition." As the summer term nears
its end there are big decisions for David Halls to make. Who will succeed Anita
as dean's chorister and Alex as bishop's chorister?
From the recreation of a plainsong mass by John Sheppard to Ave Verum Corpus by
William Byrd and the anthem Hear My Prayer by Henry Purcell, the choirs tackle
some of the greatest composers of church music. But eventually Anita, Alex and
the other year 8s sing as choristers for the very last time and there's not a
dry eye in the house. David Halls is convinced that "if you turned up in
Salisbury in 900 years time you will find girls and boys and men singing. Of
course they should be singing music which is contemporary to them, but you
can't ignore the past, it's what gives us the foundation for all we do."
Angelic Voices, directed by Emmy Award-winning Cesca Eaton, is a musical and
documentary treat that's a perfect fit for Holy Week. It is narrated by
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey's Lady Mary Crawley, herself a jazz singer and
former child singer.
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