‘You’ll always hear the sound of this building’

IN the era of Covid-19, all is changed, even time-honoured fixtures of the calendar such as from King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, performed before a live audience and broadcast on BBC radio and, later, television on almost every Christmas Eve since 1928. Health guidelines mean there won’t be any audience this year and that will affect the sound of the choir, says the director of music, Daniel Hyde. ‘There will be a far more resonant acoustic than is the case when there are more than 1,000 people in the chapel,’ he notes. ‘And, of course, there won’t be the usual