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December 7th, 7:30pm, Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton
Every Season is Joyful When You Sing
Welcome To a New Bel Canto Tradition
Tonight we celebrate not just the traditional Christmas season in song, but the unmatched joy in raising our voices together for you, and with you.​
Sing With Us (I)
Once in Royal David's City
Text: Cecil Francis Alexander Music: Henry John Gauntlett
Common Praise #123
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We pay homage the King's College Chapel tradition of a single, child's voice singing the first verse, and invite you to join us, and the mighty Casavant organ for the last two.
Set I
In Dulci Jubilo
Max Reger
O Magnum Mysterium
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Hodie Christus natus est
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Sing With Us (II)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Text: Charles Wesley Music: Felix Mendelssohn
Common Praise #138 ​
One of history's greatest hymn writers, Charles Wesley, meets one of its greatest tunesmiths, Felix Mendelssohn. Don't hold back!
Set II
Venez, mes enfants
Trad. Arr: Donald Patriquin
Quelle est cette odeur agreable
Trad. Arr: Healey Willan
Tous les bourgeois de Chartres
Trad. Arr: Donald Patriquin
Sing With Us (III)
Joy To The World
Text: Isaac Watts Music:
George Frederic Handel Common Praise #154
​Handel and Watts give Wesley and Mendelssohn a run for their money in the "best hymn writing duo ever" category. If you're a bass or a tenor, go ahead and get lusty with "and heaven and nature sing."
INTERMISSION
Set III
Schlaf mein Kindelein
Max Reger
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Michael Praetorius
Auf, auf ihr Hirten
Wilhelm Kienzl
Sing With Us (IV)
Silent Night
Text: Joseph Mohr tr. John Freeman Young
Music: Franz Xaver Gruber har. Carl H. Reinecke
Common Praise #119
Set IV
In The Bleak Midwinter
Paul Mealor
Softly
Will Todd
This Christmastide (Jessye's Carol)
Donald Fraser
Sing With Us (V)
White Christmas
Words and music by Irving Berlin
Arranged by Mac Huff
May your days, indeed, be merry and bright. White? An odds-on in our part of the world. Thank you for being with us tonight. Make sure you take every opportunity to embrace singing together wherever you find it this season, and every season.
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