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5:00 pm - Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Cathedral Choir
Prelude | Jean Langlais
(1907-1991) |
Excerpt
from "Poemes Evangeliques"
1) La Nativite |
Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) |
Chorale Prelude on "In Dulci Jubilo" |
Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach | Chorale Prelude on "O Hail This Brightest Day Of Days" |
Hymn | tune: Irby | #102 "Once in royal David's city"
Martha Long, soprano |
Carol | Anonymous | Verbum Caro
(Trinitas 4519) |
Lesson | Genesis 3:8-15 | God announces in the Garden of Eden that the seed of woman shall bruise the serpent's head |
Carol | Frank Ferko | Adam lay ybounden
(ECS 4919) |
Lesson | Isaiah 60:1-6,19 | The prophet in exile foresees the coming of the glory of the Lord |
Carol | Carl Rutti
(b 1949) |
I wonder as I
wander
(Escorial Edition) |
Lesson | Isaiah 9:2,6,7 | Christ's birth and kingdom are foretold by Isaiah |
Carol | Orlando Gibbons
(1583-1625) |
O Thou, the
central orb
Lindsey Tuller and Rebecca Andrews, sopranos Adam Kline, counter-tenor |
Hymn | tune: Forest Green | #78 "O little town of Bethlehem" |
Lesson | Isaiah 11:2,4,6-9 | The peace that Christ will bring is foreshown |
Carol | arr David Willcocks | Of
the Father's heart begotten
(Carols for Choirs 2, Oxford) |
Lesson | Luke 1:26-35,38 | The angel Gabriel salutes the Blessed Virgin Mary |
Carol | arr Harrison Oxley | Hail! Blessed
Virgin Mary
(Oxford 84.368) |
Hymn | tune: God Rest You Merry | #105 "God rest you merry, gentlemen" |
Lesson | Luke 2:1-7 | St. Luke tells of the birth of Jesus |
Carol | Leo Nestor | A Child Is Born
(ECS Publishing 4389) |
Lesson | Luke 2:8-16 | The Shepherds go to the manger |
Carol | arr Francis W Snow | Glory be
to God in heaven
(Charles W Homeyer 364-3) |
Carol | William Mathias | Sir Christemas
(Carols for Choirs 2, Oxford) |
Hymn | tune: Winchester Old | #94 "While shepherds watched their flocks" |
Lesson | Matthew 2:1-11 | The Wise Men are led by the star of Jesus |
Carol | Morten Lauridsen | O Magnum Mysterium |
Lesson | John 1:1-14 | St. John unfolds the great mystery of the Incarnation |
Hymn | tune: Adeste Fidelis | #83 "O come, all ye faithful" |
Hymn | tune: Mendelssohn | #87 "Hark! the herald angels sing" |
Postlude | Marcel Dupré
(1886-1971) |
Chorale Prelude on "In Dulci Jubilo" |
Postlude | Johann Sebastian Bach | Chorale Prelude on "From Heaven Above To Earth I Come" |
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