The Choir of St Paul’s College, Sydney, comprises 19- and 20-year-old singers and is undertaking a major European tour this month.
Among the tombs of the great kings, queens and prime ministers – not to mention Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Laurence Olivier – a distinctly Australian sound bounced around the historic cathedral.On the last day of the year at Westminster Abbey, where William the Conqueror was crowned in 1066 and, to a new audience.
“Often we sing Christmas carols, which you know, which talk about the bleak winter or very cold ones,” Stephens says. “But this is a really uniquely Australian carol ... bush birds and their habitats celebrating Christmas Day, and particularly using an Indigenous word like ‘orana’ as well, that’s really significant for us.”buried in the west cloister of the Abbey, would have been proud.
“This is just like a hobby for me, like I’m not a professional, neither are most of us, so to get this opportunity is really amazing,” she says.
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