Choose the right time of day, and a frosty walk around a city’s cathedral quarter or through an ancient university cloister this weekend might well be accompanied by an atmospheric soundtrack: an angelic chorus of harmonious voices, borne on the wind.
It is one of the bonuses of a 800-year-old choral tradition, a skill at which Britain has always seemed to excel. But now the choirs at America’s top ivy-league colleges are poised to beat our best efforts, or so fears the renowned choral expert who leads elite choirs on both sides of the Atlantic.
