CONCERT ProGRAM

Opening

Noel Noel - We greet you                             Samuel M. Jones

Welcome

*Opening Carols (sing along words below)

Hark! The Heralds Angels Sing                            Felix Mendelssohn

Angels we have heard on High                   Traditional French Carol

Minstrel Group 1

Concert Music

Gaudete! Piae Cantiones

Sicut Cervus Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

O Magnum                            Morton Lauridsen

Eatnemen Vuelie                                         Frode Fjellheim

Minstrel Group 2

Carols

Christmas is Coming                                  Traditional English Carol

Wassail Wassail                       Arr. Schleuter-Jones

– Intermission –

Minstrel Group 3

Concert Music

Hallelujah -                                 Mark  Williams Shape note song 

Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind                      John Rutter

Throw the yule log on Uncle John           P.D.Q. BACH/Schickele

*Carol

We Wish you a Merry Christmas     Traditional English Carol

Concert Music

Maoz Tzur!   arr. Jacob Finkle

Ding Dong Merrily on High!            16th cent French Carol

Merry Christmas Merry Christmas

John Williams, arr. James Adams

Minstrel Group 4

*Closing Carols

Silent Night                                                              Franz Gruber

Dona Nobis                                                              W. A. Mozart

*Please, sing along with us! Music and/or words below

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Hark! The herald angels sing,
"Glory to the new-born king!
Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled."
Joyful all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th’ angelic host proclaim,
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald angels sing,
"Glory to the new-born King!"

Christ by highest heaven adored:
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
Late in time behold him come,
Offspring of the favoured one.
Veiled in flesh, the Godhead see;
Hail, th’incarnate Deity:
Pleased, as man, with men to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel!
Hark! The herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new-born King!” 

Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Risen with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
Born that man no more may die:
Born to raise the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth.
Hark! The herald angels sing,
"Glory to the new-born King!"

Angels we have heard on high

Angels we have heard on high,                     
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,                     
And the mountains in reply                
Echoing their joyous strains: 
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!                                                                 

Shepherds, why this jubilee?                        
Why your joyous strains prolong?                 
What the gladsome tidings be,                      
Which inspire your heav’nly song.                
Gloria in excelsis Deo!                                   
Gloria in excelsis Deo!           
        
Come to Bethlehem and see                         
Him whose birth the angels sing;                  
Come, adore on bended knee                       
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!   

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