O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Folk singer Chris Wood remembers both the profound and the mundane effect of singing in Canterbury Cathedral as a child.
Away from the concert platform, five musicians write about the music that has shaped their personal lives.
Folk singer/song-writer Chris Wood was a boy chorister at Canterbury Cathedral. The build-up at Christmas time to a performance of the hymn O Come, O Come Emmanuel had both a profound and mundane effect on this eight-year-old child.
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