Sounds Choral: May 26 - The 40-Voice Motet

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Host Gabriel Crouch looks at the 40-voice motet on Sounds Choral Sunday (5/26 at 2 pm) featuring the crowning example of this symphonic choral sound - English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis' Spem in Allium.

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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.