Tag Archive: 0John Mason Neale

This week I should have been singing at Ely Cathedral with a group of friends called the Pearce Singers, a choir which arose some years ago out of those of us who used to sing with Tring Parish Church Choir when we were growing up. Back in the 1980s and early 90s, we would go […]

Who doesn’t love a rousing round of ‘Good King Wenceslas’? And who could forget Hugh Grant singing it in Love Actually? If you were thinking this carol was Victorian, you would be correct. While the tune itself dates from the fourteenth century (The New Oxford Book of Carols, p. 353), it wasn’t until the 1850s […]