News December, 2023

30 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Super flumina Babylonis à 5
• Gwyneth Walker: Crossing the bar

Secular Music:

• Both sides now, by Joni Mitchell (arr. SATB Roger Emerson)
• Candle on the water, by Joel Hirschhorn and Al Kasha (arr. SATB Mac Huff)
• Don’t rain on my parade, by Jule Styne (arr. SATB Mark Brymer)
• Over the rainbow, by Harold Arlen (arr. Jacob Narverud)

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28 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Giovanni Croce: Regina coeli
• Heinrich Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
• Orlande de Lassus: Audi dulcis amica mea
• Clauido Merulo: In tribulatione mea
• Ludovico da Viadana: Missa Defunctorum (Requiem)

Secular Music:

• Change me, O heavens, by John Wilbye
• Come ye heavy states of night, by John Dowland
• Die now, my heart, by Thomas Morley
• Gently falls the evening shade, by Luca Marenzio
• I languish to complain me, by John Bennet
• Ich weiss mir ein meidlein, by Orlande de Lassus
• In deep distress, by John Mundy
• My prime of youth, by John Mundy
• O come è gran martíre, by Claudio Monteverdi
• Oyez! Has any found a lad, by Thomas Tomkins
• Say gentle nymphs, by Thomas Morley
• Semele (Choruses). by George Frideric Handel
• Thus saith my Cloris bright, by John Wilbye
• Thyrsis, sleepest thou? by John Bennet
• Was ever wretch tormented, by Thomas Tomkins
• Weep no more thou sorry boy, by Thomas Tomkins
• When flowery meadows, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Ye restless thoughts, by John Bennet

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23 December 2023

Secular Music:

• Flowers, by Caroline Charrière

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22 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• William Byrd: Ecce advenit Dominator Dominus
• Giaches de Wert: Vox in Rama

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21 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Antoine Brumel: Laudate Dominum de caelis
• John Stainer: The crucifixion (arr. SSA Desmond Ratcliffe)

Secular Music:

• Al dolce suon del mormorar de l’onde, by Orlande de Lassus

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16 December 2023

Secular Music:

• Dana-dana (SAB), by Lajos Bárdos

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15 December 2023

Secular Music:

• Can’t help falling in love, by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore and George David Weiss (arr. TTB Ed Lojeski)

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14 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Henry Aldrich: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G
• Harvey Grace: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
• E.J. Moeran: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D
• Sydney H. Nicholson: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F
• Vincent Novello: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E
• Benjamin Rogers: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A minor
• Caleb Simper: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat
• Thomas Forbes Walmisley: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
• Lizzie Wheeler: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C

Christmas Music:

• Jingle bell rock, by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe (arr. Voices and Harmony Charles Beale)
• People, look east (arr. SSA Barry Rose)

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12 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Song of songs, by Patrick Hawes

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11 December 2023

Secular Music:

• Six chansons, by Paul Hindemith

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9 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• O love (TTBB), by Elaine Hagenberg

Christmas Music:

• Carol of the bells, by Mykola Leontovich (arr. TTBB Peter J. Wilhousky)
• We wish you a merry Christmas (arr. TTBB Graham S. Bissett)

Secular Music:

• Fix you (TTBB), by Coldplay
• The pratty flowers / The Holmfirth anthem (arr. Hugh S. Roberton, adapted TTBB Graham S. Bissett)

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8 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• John Henry Maunder: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G
• Sydney H. Nicholson: Magnificat and Nunc dimittiis in D flat
• Juan Gutierrez de Padilla: Tambalagumbá
• William Prendergast: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A flat

Christmas Music:

• Pat-a-pan (arr. SAB Mark Burrows)
• Resonet in laudibus, by Anselm Schubiger

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7 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Paul Mealor: The shadows of war

• Down by the riverside (arr. TTBB Denys Hood)

Christmas Music:

• Santa baby, by Joan Javits, Phil Springer and Tony Springer (arr. Mark Bymer)

Secular Music:

• Skyfall, by Paul Epworth and Adele Adkins (arr. Richard Curtis)
• Walk like an Egyptian, by Liam Sternberg (arr. Alex Morris)

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5 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• Gregorio Allegri: Adoremus in aeternum

Christmas Music:

• Adeste fideles (arr. J.G. Cullen)
• Gaudete, Piae Cantiones 1582
• Good Christians all, rejoice News news (arr. John Stainer)
• Joy to the world, by George Frideric Handel (arr. Kevin Mayhew)
• Kontakion, by Nancy Chalker Takis
• Puer natus in Bethlehem à 4, by Michael Praetorius
• Once in royal David’s city, by Henry John Gauntlett (arr. Kevin Mayhew)
• See him lying on a bed of straw, by Michael Perry (arr. Christopher Tambling)
• Sing lullaby! (arr. David Hill)
• Verbum caro factum est, Piae Cantiones 1582
• What child is this (arr. John Stainer, ed. Kevin Mayhew)
• While shepherds watched, after Christopher Tye (v.6 arr. Clement McWilliam)

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4 December 2023

Sacred Music:

• John L. Bell: Take this moment

Christmas Music:

• Christmas hymn (O holy night), by Adolphe Adam (arr. Dudley Buck)
• It’s beginning to look like Christmas, by Meredith Willson (arr. SATB Mark Hayes)
• My dancing day, by Carl Rütti
• O little town of Bethlehem, by Carl Rütti)
• O magnum mysterium, by John Pickard

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3 December 2023

Secular Music:

• The prison, by Ethel Smyth

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