The inspiration for recording this Christmas CD came from a desire to make a distinctly American recording of some Christmas favorites, usually only recorded by British choirs. Now this posed us a great challenge: it isn’t as if every single one of the finest British choirs, past and present, hasn’t already recorded these gems. We’d be presenting mostly British arrangements of British carols — what arrogance! How dare we even think we’d have a right to engage in such hubris. They’d have to be perfect. In order to justify such a project we’d have to make an individual statement; cover new ground. So, we set ourselves some guidelines before we began: we would use Am