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5:00 pm - Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Cathedral Choir
| Prelude | Marcel Dupré
(1886-1971) | Variations Sur un Noel |
| Hymn | tune: Irby | #102 "Once in royal David's city"
Lorna Stewart, 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 | Malcolm Archer | Adam lay ybounden
(Kevin Mayhew) |
| Lesson | Isaiah 60:1-6,19 | The prophet Isaiah in exile foresees the coming of the glory of the Lord |
| Carol | William Byrd
(1542?-1623) | Surge Illuminare |
| Lesson | Isaiah 9:2,6,7 | Christ's birth and kingdom are foretold by Isaiah |
| Carol | Thomas Morley
(1557-1602) | Lirum, Lirum |
| Hymn | tune: Forest Green | #78 "O little town of Bethlehem" |
| Lesson | Isaiah 11:2,4,6-9 | The peace that Christ will bring is foretold |
| Carol | Henry Walford Davies
(1869-1941) | The Holly and the Ivy Rebecca Andrews, soprano Luke Hopper, tenor |
| Lesson | Luke 1:26-35,38 | The angel Gabriel announces to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she will bear the Son of the Most High |
| Carol | David Willcocks | Angelus ad virginem |
| Hymn | tune: God Rest You Merry | #105 "God rest you merry, gentlemen" |
| Lesson | Luke 2:1-7 | St. Luke tells of the birth of the Messiah in Bethlehem |
| Carol | Andrew Carter | Nightingale Carol |
| Lesson | Luke 2:8-16 | Angels proclaim the Messiah's birth; the shepherds go to the manger |
| Carol | John Joubert | Torches
(Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford) |
| Carol | Michael Head | The Little
Road To Bethlehem
(Boosey & Hawkes 16324) |
| 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 | Francis Poulenc | Videntes Stellam |
| 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 | Chorale Prelude on "In Dulci Jubilo" |
| Postlude | Sigfried Karg-Elert | Chorale Improvisation on "In Dulci Jubilo" |
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