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King’s at the double

ven the firmest cornerstones of the classical music calendar were rocked by the upheaval of the pandemic in 2020, and the annual television broadcastwas no exception. With two cases of coronavirus ruling out any of the King’s College, Cambridge choral scholars from taking part, urgent replacements were needed to fill in the adult voices. Thankfully, the six men of the King’s Singers were all available at short notice and sang alongside the choir’s trebles, at a suitably social distance, for the cameras.

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