Cambridge Choir Sings on Water - on video!!

I found this today, and you need to see it. Featured in this video is Eric Whitacre's "Water Night." Now why didn't I think of that?

From this blog post:

On Sunday I witnessed what surely must be one of the most whimsical things I've ever seen. It was a beautiful evening in Cambridge and I was contemplating what to do with it. A couple of my friends were going punting, but I had been on the river each of the previous two days (burning myself in the hot sun the day before) so I was considering catching "Ocean's 13" with Ben and Jeremy. Then I received a text from Ben informing me that the Trinity choir was performing a concert from a flotilla of punts on the river behind the college.

I quickly ran over to the King's backs, where my other friends were preparing to embark on their punting adventure. I told them about the concert and we planned to arrive just as it was starting. We made our way past Trinity and turned around a bit past Magdalene Bridge. I took over at that point, and we managed to slip into the concert about two minutes before the choir came out. The banks of the river were packed, but we were able to get front row seats on the water and watch from our punt. It was pretty awesome.

The singing was wonderful, but the fact that it took place on the backs made it even more beautiful. I can't imagine something like this happening anywhere else in the world. Say what you will about Oxbridge culture (see Tim's recent post); it still has the power to inspire. Swans and geese swam by at the evening went on. As twilight approached they illuminated the punts with strings of lights. As if all of this weren't enough, for the finale they set off from the banks with a punter at each corner of the five-punt flotilla and slowly floated around the bend in the river. They stopped just as they were about to go out of sight and performed an encore. They disappeared as the song ended. Magical.

Two of our friends showed up at the other side of the river during the intermission, and I took the opportunity to show off my punting chops by popping over to pick them up. It was a great night; we got to do a little night punting after the concert as we went back to King's.