Editing Christ Church, Oxford (section)

== Cathedral choir ==
[[File:Christ Church Cathedral Interior 1, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|Choir and organ of Christ Church Cathedral|left|220x220px]]

Long associated with  [[High church|High Church Anglicanism]],<ref>{{cite book | last =Worden | first =Blair | authorlink =Blair Worden | title =Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian | publisher =[[I.B. Tauris]] | series = | volume = | edition = | date =2015 | location = | pages = | language = | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=16OmDwAAQBAJ&dq=christ+church,+oxford+high+church&pg=PT41| doi = | id = | isbn = 9780857729880 | quote=As an undergraduate at Christ Church he attended the High Church services in the cathedral that is part of the college,... }}</ref> Christ Church is unique in that it has both a cathedral choir and a college choir. The cathedral choir comprises twelve adults and sixteen boys. The adults are made up of lay clerks and choral scholars, or academical clerks. The choir was all male until 2019, when they welcomed alto Elizabeth Nurse, the first female clerk of Christ Church Cathedral Choir.<ref>{{cite web |title=Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford |url=https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/oxfords-cathedral/new-chapter-christ-church-cathedral-choir |access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref> The boys, whose ages range from eight to thirteen, are chosen for their musical ability and attend [[Christ Church Cathedral School]]. Aside from the director, [[Peter Holder (organist)|Peter Holder]], there is also a sub-organist and two organ scholars. The college choir, however, is always a student-run society, and sings Evensong once a week in term time. In vacations the services are sung by the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church – a choir drawn from semi-professional singers in and around Oxford. The cathedral also hosts visiting choirs from time to time during vacations.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}[[File:Christ Church Cathedral Interior 2, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|Nave of Christ Church Cathedral looking to the altar]]Throughout its history, the cathedral choir has attracted many distinguished composers and organists – from its first director, [[John Taverner]], appointed by [[Cardinal Wolsey]] in 1526, to [[William Walton]] in the twentieth century.  In recent years, the choir have commissioned recorded works by contemporary composers such as [[John Tavener]], [[William Mathias]] and [[Howard Goodall]], also patron of Christ Church Music Society.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The choir, which broadcasts regularly, have many recordings to their credit and were the subject of a [[Channel 4]] television documentary ''[[Howard Goodall]]'s Great Dates'' (2002). The documentary was nominated at the Montreux TV Festival in the arts programme category – and has since been seen internationally. The choir's collaboration with Goodall has also led to their singing his TV themes for ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' and ''[[Vicar of Dibley]]''. They appeared in ''Howard Goodall's Big Bangs'', broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 in March 2000. ''Treasures of Christ Church'' (2011) is an example of the choir's recording and debuted as the highest new entry in the UK Specialist Classical chart.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.chchchoir.org/2011/03/treasures-of-christ-church/| title=Treasures of Christ Church| date=2011-03-07| access-date=15 April 2018| archive-date=15 December 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215164428/http://www.chchchoir.org/2011/03/treasures-of-christ-church/| url-status=dead}}</ref> The disc featured on BBC Radio 3's ''In Tune'' on 26 September 2011 and on Radio 3's ''Breakfast Show'' on 27 September that year.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}