It will then be restaged by choirs across the UK, culminating in multiple performances around Remembrance Day weekend.
On the first Saturday 500 singers from community choirs across London will perform a new choral work by the artist Peter Liversidge.
Jonathan Griffith, the artistic director of Distinguished Concerts International New York, assembled a huge orchestra and a chorus that looked to be at least 250 strong, drawn from choirs across the country, for a mammoth "Messiah" at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday afternoon.
As honorary general editor of the Church Music Society for many years, he was responsible for a number of publications which now form the staple diet of church, cathedral and collegiate choirs across the world.
The singers, from half a dozen choirs across the central desert, were among hundreds of people who had travelled from as far as Kimberley in Western Australia to commemorate the 1985 handback of Uluru and Kata Tjuta to the Anangu people.
Christians choirs from across Europe have come to Jersey to sing non-stop for 36 hours.
"Lytham Ladies choir are sending across a contingency to do something and motorcyclists from the British Legion want to be involved.
The relationship between voice, architecture and space has fascinated me since I was in the school choir and came across a few sonic phenomena – and a few emotional and psychic responses – that I'm still learning from.
Tickets went on sale this weekend for the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience, which will bring Djwadi, a full orchestra, and a choir to 28 cities across America beginning in February of next year.
Shadows cast by the cathedral can be seen across the choir steps and near aisle.
