Christmas Choirdetails

Christmas Choir

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In a dark candle-lit church, a bespectacled man holding a baton is leading a choir of boys in white surplices. The boys are not actually looking at the conductor, and are perhaps drowned out by the bassoon and the tuba in their midst. The front boy (on our left) holds a thurible, or censer, suggesting that this is either a Roman Catholic or high church Protestant service. The boy nearest to us holds what might be a hat. We can dimly make out faces behind the choir.

This is a detail from Christmas Mass, an engraving by Max Narua von Weber of a painting by José Benlliure y Gil.

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