Host Gabriel Crouch, director of choral activities at Princeton University, begins his two-week exploration of the rich choral legacy of great psalms. This week - Psalm 51 including the famous setting by Girogio Allegri. Listen Sunday (11/24) at 2 pm.
Gabriel Crouch is Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer in Music at Princeton University. He began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he performed a solo at the wedding of HRH Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson. After completing a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a place in the renowned a cappella group The King's Singers in 1996. In the next eight years he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world.