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Cambridge is renowned for its all-male collegiate choirs, most famously of King\u2019s College and St\u00a0John\u2019s College. Yet a number of other Cambridge colleges, such as Corpus Christi, have hosted mixed voiced choirs in their chapels since at least the 1960s.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Typically, though, these were recruited not only from the chapel\u2019s own college, but also from neighbouring colleges (a practice which continues today, voices from all-women\u2019s colleges such as Newnham typically joining mixed choirs in other colleges). <\/span><\/p>\n The real breakthrough in public perception, though, came in 1971 when Clare College appointed the visionary Peter Dennison as its director of music. He promptly founded the first dedicated mixed-voice college choir in Cambridge, a year ahead of Clare\u2019s first admission of women undergraduates; when Dennison left for Melbourne in 1975, John Rutter took over and made Clare College Choir famous through several acclaimed recordings. <\/span><\/p>\n Other colleges soon followed Clare\u2019s inspiring example: first Selwyn College in 1976, then in 1979 both Christ\u2019s College and Gonville & Caius, as they also admitted women students. In 1982, Trinity College belatedly launched a superlative mixed choir under the direction of Richard Marlow, which for a while set a new standard in its precision and musicality. Even King\u2019s and St John\u2019s had to look to their laurels, and have since launched their own mixed choirs: King\u2019s Voices in 1997, and St\u00a0John\u2019s Voices in 2014. <\/span><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Debbie Graham Published: Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 12:00 am Cambridge is renowned for its all-male collegiate choirs, most famously of King\u2019s College and St\u00a0John\u2019s College. Yet a number of other Cambridge colleges, such as Corpus Christi, have hosted mixed voiced choirs in their chapels since at least the 1960s. 10 best choirs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7323,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs.jpg",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs-1024x768.jpg",800,600,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs.jpg",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/a-history-of-cambridge-mixed-choirs.jpg",1200,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Debbie Graham Published: Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 12:00 am Cambridge is renowned for its all-male collegiate choirs, most famously of King\u2019s College and St\u00a0John\u2019s College. Yet a number of other Cambridge colleges, such as Corpus Christi, have hosted mixed voiced choirs in their chapels since at least the 1960s. 10 best choirs in…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/7322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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