ELY — The boys choir of Ely Cathedral has been filling the magnificent 1,000-year-old structure with music for hundreds of years. But never has the choir included an American voice. That’s about to ...
At Ely, as at many other monasteries and cathedrals, the ‘liturgical choir’ where the monks sat extended into the eastern bays of the nave. To the east was the presbytery and high altar. Beyond that ...
(MIRROR INDY) — An Indianapolis choir joined a thousand-year legacy when it traveled to Ely Cathedral near Cambridge, England, for seven days in July. It’s claimed that a choir has been singing ...
The cathedral we see today at Ely is not at all as it was in the Middle Ages. Three events in particular had a massive impact on it. The first was the Reformation, in the 1530s and 1540s, when ...