Re:‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol
by jannyfer on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:34AM
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I appreciate your link but I thought the article did a decent job.
It says the chord comes halfway through the final verse, and then has an embedded youtube video of the whole song.
Re:‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol
by muglug on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:48AM
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Yeah, I suppose, but it's a little like linking to a JPEG by saying "it's two thirds of the way down this HTML page".
They could have easily updated the embed to start at the 7th verse.
It comes after the 6th verse (featuring a descant, where the highest voices sing above the tune).
The 7th verse is all in unison, which makes the chord stand out more.
David Willcocks (whose arrangement this article discusses) used to conduct a big concert every year at the Royal Albert Hall, sung a choir he conducted called the Bach Choir. For that concert he added a brass fanfare & accompaniment on top of everything else, which brings everything to another level. I went a few years in a row when I was a young boy, and it gave me some incredibly happy memories (including meeting Willcocks).
Here’s the whole seventh verse with brass, sung by that choir and conducted by Willcocks: https://youtu.be/YG2woiVsJrc?t=199.
The current conductor of that choir (David Hill) is quoted in the article.