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Chris Arthur, soprano, first encountered good choral music in the Youth Choir of a dirty mining town in Yorkshire. She soon escaped to Cambridge University where she studied Medicine and Theology, sang in as many choirs as possible, and played cricket for the University women's team. She then went on to Oxford Medical School where she was compelled to study more Medicine, sing in less choirs, but still play cricket for the University women's team.
Chris first joined Cantores in Ecclesia three decades ago, to sing the Monteverdi Vespers (see photo of Chris as a cherubic treble during the Magnificat). It took Chris only a few rehearsals to learn Monteverdi's Vespers, but about ten years to learn Gregorian chant nuances. She could have come to the choir knowing more of the nuances of Gregorian chant, if she had paid more heed as an undergraduate when attending King's College Choral Evensong on the nights the men's choir sang chant unaccompanied. Instead, she just spaced out in the candelight into spiritual bliss, assisted by the angelic overtones, as amateurs are wont to do at church services, unless they are actually singing in the choir.
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