Christiana Howell

So glad I listened to #9lc on @ClassicalMPR this year. Fantastic post-broadcast content from Michael Barone feat. Dan Hyde and Bill Ives interviews, and another playing of the fabulous commissioned carol!

@Selwyn1882 @Kings_College It was stunning!!

Selwyn alumnus Bill Ives was commissioned to write a new carol for this year’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast live from @Kings_College Chapel at 3pm today. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01…

@ejdougan Can't wait to listen on my drive between church services tonight!

Still got presents to wrap, stuffing to make? Let #ChoralChihuahua keep you company with some suitably festive tunes👇🐶🎄

@nicomuhly Thank you for your delightful commentary, as ever. It's the only reason I dust off this terrible platform every December-the-twenty-fourth. Cheers 🥂

Well that was fun! It's only 11:29 and we got a whole lot done here together. How are the rest of you spending your afternoons? I'm going to make pickles and heat up some bolognese.

I love how filthy the last verse of O come has become 🤗#9lc

The way they've recorded this service sounds like when I forgot to switch the audio over to the external mics and recorded a whole choir concert through my laptop microphone #9lc

Oh boy, here come 27 verses of O Come All Ye Faithful! #9lc

@nicomuhly Supposedly he went naked-riding on a motorcycle with Elizabeth Poston

Please never forget that Peter Warlock was actually called "Philip Arnold Heseltine" and he was crazily interesting. Even the wikipedia is pretty delicious. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_War…

The sleepy lullaby ones are Betty’s favorite 😴 #9lc

Does everything seem a little muffled and husky? Maybe my speakers suck but I swear they recorded it differently in past years. Maybe the microphones are further from the choir? #9lc

It would've been hard not to applaud after that! "Which changed our lore, And changed our lives For evermore." #BillIves #9lc

This is by far the most interesting thing we've heard yet (and sung with such drama)! Bill Ives is a legend (and a @Selwyn1882 alum!) #9lc

the observation of punctuation in this hymn is impeccable #semicolon #9lc

KICK OUT THE COUGHERS #9lc

This Tavener is one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever written. 🐑 #9lc

This congregation sounds like they've been camped outside for 2 days 🏕️ #gettheesomecoffee #pickupthepace #9lc

@nicomuhly I hear it too, even through my shitty speakers

Here we go: Matthew Martin! Nicest dude. Is it me or is there a proper bass in the qŵa this year? Maybe it's some clever EQ but it sounds like somebody really lives downtown; often you get baritones who are happy to travel but whoever that is seems willing to *host*.

"Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy LeFanu DBE was an Irish-English composer." (from Wikipedia) #themoreyouknow #9lc

I lurve this Matthew Martin 🤤 #ibowndyn #9lc

This poor chorister sounds vocally FATIGUED #9lc