arr. by Stephen Paulus
Sea Chanters Chorus
conducted by Capt. Brian O. Walden
Guitar: Musician 1st Class Shawn Purcell
Harp: Chief Musician Emily Dickson
Dale Trumbore: Glorious, Glorious
Harmonium Choral Society
text
from A Christmas Carol
No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold;
cold, piping for the blood to dance to;
Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.
Oh, glorious. Glorious.
Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell.
Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
A merry Christmas to everybody!
A happy New Year to all the world.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!
The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel.
Oh, glorious, glorious.
Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell.
Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
A merry Christmas to everybody!
A happy New Year to all the world.
I will honour Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.
Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell.
Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash.
A merry Christmas to everybody!
A happy New Year to all the world.
—Charles Dickens,
adapted by the composer
St. Olaf Choir, Anton Armstrong, Conductor
St. Olaf Choir Tour Home Concert, February 24, 2016
Boe Chapel, St. Olaf College
Text by Laurie F. Gauger
Music by Philip Biedenbender
Originally premiered at the 2015 St. Olaf Christmas Festival.
“The walls of a stable are not worthy of a king.
You come, little one, borne on the songs of angels,
The echoes of prophets,
And the light of a strange star.
Do not cry, though you must lie
On this rough, unforgiving wood.
You will be wrapped in lengths of linen,
And you will sleep.
Being found in human form,
He humbled himself,
Becoming obedient to death,
Yes, the death of the cross.
Though you must lie
On this rough, unforgiving wood.
You will be wrapped in lengths of linen,
And you will sleep.
These walls are not worthy of a king, little one,
But your kingdom is not of this world.”
Mark Lowry: Mary, Did You Know?
Straight No Chaser
I had read of this last night, but hadn’t seen enough news to post. Now it’s in print and we know it’s true. Very, very sad.
Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, killing everyone on board, Russian authorities said.
The Russian Defence Ministry said one of its TU-154 Tupolev planes had disappeared from radar screens at 0525 MSK (9.25 p.m. ET), two minutes after taking off from Sochi in southern Russia, where it had stopped to refuel from Moscow, on its way to Syria.
Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a ministry spokesman, told reporters that nobody had survived.
“The area of the crash site has been established. No survivors have been spotted,” he said. An unnamed ministry source told Russian news agencies no life rafts had been found, while another source told the Interfax agency that the plane had not sent an SOS signal.
In televised comments, President Vladimir Putin, speaking in St Petersburg, declared Dec. 26 a national day of mourning.
The jet, a Soviet-era Tupolev plane built in 1983, had been carrying 84 passengers and eight crew members.
At least 60 were members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, better known internationally as the Red Army Choir, and were being flown out to Russia’s Hmeymim air base in Syria to entertain troops in the run-up to the New Year.
J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
From the Herderkirche in Weimar, Germany
John Eliot Gardiner – conductor
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Claron McFadden – soprano
Christoph Genz – tenor
Bernarda Fink – alto
Dietrich Henschel – bass
Katharine Fuge
Part One:
Part Two:
My Lord has Come by Will Todd
Sea Chanters Chorus
conductor: Musician 1st Class Robert Kurth
Recorded at the Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, Vir. in May 2015.
About the composer:
British composer and pianist Will Todd has made a name for himself successfully crossing jazz and classical genres. His 2003 jazz mass setting, “Mass in Blue” received critical acclaim as an “innate fusion of jazz elements within choral writing” (Jones, Oxford University Press). Additionally, he has written for the musical theatre and opera stages.
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(BBC ONE Advent Sunday 2005 live broadcast from Clifton Cathedral. Arrangement by Richard Jeffrey-Gray.)
