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 
 

Hodie Christus natus est
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

In Dulci Jubilo
Max Reger

O Magnum Mysterium
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina



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 

Auf, auf ihr Hirten
Wilhelm Kienzl

Schlaf mein Kindelein
Max Reger

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Michael Praetorius



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 


Softly
Will Todd

This Christmastide
(Jessye's Carol)
Donald Fraser

In The Bleak Midwinter
Paul Mealor



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.