Once in Royal David's City

Lanier's Books captures the beauty of Anglican worship in her eloquent description of attending a service of Nine Lessons and Carols.

"Once in Royal David's City," incidentally, is one of my favorite carols, though it has been recorded relatively infrequently compared to better-known Christmas carols. My favorite recording of this song appears on The Joy of Christmas, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.