What a joy it is to watch and hear these children sing! And, this video does a great job of showing how these youngsters become choristers. The traditions are followed, and gives these children a chance to be part of it all. It's such a wonderful thing! Parts of it actually brought tears to my eyes. God Bless all of you and the choristers who are under your charge.
A fascinating project would be to follow & film one girl and one boy for a documentary series, both throughout their chorister years and then throughout their next 20 years.
My parents have always said had they not immigrated to Australia back in the1970’s and if I had been a boy I would have tried out for the Cathedral school in Canterbury. In those days it was sometime that only boys could do. I’m so glad to see girls being included. Despite being a girl I had a voice as pure as any choirboy.
These children by the time of my writing, will now be in the progress of life to adulthood. Somehow, the tradition of the choir whether of Cathedral or of a Parish Church deserves considerable more careful attention today, however there are difficulties alone to retain the fabric of many of our Christian religious buildings for worship. There is so much that can be learnt being in the choir, it would be nice if more schools could have at the least association even if not a devoted choir school as at Salisbury Cathedral in it being integral to the curriculum.
Do you mean the song that kids sing at 0:40 and 1:55? That's responsorial psalm 42 text. Not sure who composed it, but could be the choir director himself. At 1:41 is the Magnificat from that night's evensong service, but not sure who composed it either. J. Young is right, though, you could look up the Cathedral to see if their website has old bulletins.
