The Old Hundredth - arr Ralph Vaughan Williams | Auckland Youth Choir

The Old Hundredth - arr Ralph Vaughan Williams

Auckland Youth Choir
David Squire - Director of Music
Claire Caldwell - Assistant Director of Music
Michael Stewart - Organ
Liam Wright & Thomas Scott - Trumpet

Organ & Choir Celebration - Town Hall Organ Trust concert
14 May 2023
Auckland Town Hall
Auckland, New Zealand

Video by Auckland Live
Sound by Adrian Hollay

The Old Hundredth was a personal favourite of Queen Elizabeth II. Vaughan Williams wrote this arrangement of the hymn All People That on Earth Do Dwell for her coronation in 1953. The Old Hundreth tune is thought to have been composed by Louis Bourgeois in the 16th century. The text was written by protestant Scotsman William Kethe in the 1560s while in exile in Geneva ahead of the Scottish Reformation.

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