News October 2023

31 October 2023

Christmas music:

• Gaudete (arr. David Lee)
• Go tell it on the mountain (arr. Daryl Runswick)

Secular music:

• Nymphes des bois, by Josquin Desprez

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30 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Robert Lehman: Rorate caeli

Secular music:

• Chapua kali Desemba, by David Lantz III

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News October 2023

29 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Melanie DeMore: Blessed be!

Christmas music:

• Sing gloria, by William G. James
• This the happy morn (StokesT)
• Villancico xicarrero, by Fernando Taberner

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28 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Rhona Clarke: Navigatio

Christmas music:

• Christmas Eve, by Kim Porter
• Jesus, Jesus, rest your head (arr. TTBB K.J. Dinham)
• A medley of Christmas carols (arr. TTBB Jack Haigh)

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27 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Ruth Elaine Schram: Bring us hope

Christmas music:

• Christmas chopsticks, by Fred Heider (arr. SSAA; or, TTBB Anastasio Rossi)
• So many stars, by Lin Marsh
• The warmth of Christmas (arr. Gwyn Arch)
• The Wexford carol (arr. Ben Parry)
• When Christ was born, by Ben Parry

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26 October 2023

Christmas music:

• Have yourself a merry little Christmas, by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine (arr. SATB Jay Althouse)
• Rudoph the red-nosed reindeer, by Johnny Marks (arr. SAB Paul Ayres)

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25 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Richard Shephard: And when the builders

Christmas music:

• Good news! |(SATB) by Jay Althouse
• Sleigh ride, by Leroy Anderson (arr. MaryAnne Muglia Smith)
• Sussex carol (arr. Philip W.J. Stopford)
• The Virgin Mary had a baby boy (arr. Philip W.J. Stopford)

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24 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Johann Christoph Bach: Lieber, lieber Herr Gott
• Zanaida Stewart Robles: Ecstatic expectancy
• Giaches de Wert: Gaudete in Domino

Christmas music:

• A feast for Christmas, by Alan Bullard
• How quietly (SAB), by Joel Raney
• White Christmas, by Irving Berlin (arr. SSA Audrey Snyder)

Secular music:

• Longe da te, cor mio, by Claudio Monteverdi
• Love is all around, by Reg Presley (arr. SAB Alan Simmons)

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23 October 2023

Christmas music:

• Carol of the birds (arr. SATB Paul Christiansen)
• Carol of the birds (SATB), by William G. James
• Christmas Day, by William G. James
• Heri za Krismas (SATB), by Jay Althouse
• The three drovers, by William G. James

Secular music:

• Monday, Monday, by John Phillips (arr. 3-part mixed Roger Emerson)

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22 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Johann Michael Bach: Halt, was du hast
• Dietrich Buxtehude: Missa brevis BuxWV 114
• Max Reger: O Jesulein süß

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21 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Laura Farnell: Do not stand at my grave and weep (SSA)
• Laura Farnell: Do not stand at my grave and weep (SATB)

Christmas music:

• A child of hope, by Ryan Murphy
• Where is this stupendous stranger? by Jacques Cohen

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20 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Jason Smart: Preces and responses

Christmas music:

• The bee carol, by Tim Snowden
• Ring out the bells, by Francis Faux

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19 October 2023

Christmas music:

• A la nanita nana (adapted Conrad Susa)
• African Noel (arr. Unison or 2-part Dave & Jean Perry)
• I wonder as I wander (arr. Robyn Krowicky)
• What you gonna call him? by Patsy Ford Simms

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18 October 2023

Christmas music:

• All praise to thee, by Elaine Hagenberg
• Bethlehem, by Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Mary’s child, by Paul Bryan

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17 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Thomas Morley: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

Christmas music:

• Jingle bell rock, by Joseph Beal and James Boothe (arr. Peter Foggitt)
• The nativity, by Mark Woodruff
• Shcho to za predïvo (Oh, what a wonder!), by Vasyl Barvinsky
• This endris night, by Ed Welch

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16 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Johann Crüger, Deck thyself, my soul (arr. Steven C. Krantz)

Christmas music:

• It’s beginning to look like Christmas, by Meredith Willson (arr. SAB Mark Hayes)
• Winter is at hand (SAB), by Ruth Morris Gray

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15 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Franz Schubert: Heilig ist der Herr (arr. TTBB Johann Herbeck)

Christmas music:

• In dulci jubilo, by Carl Thiel
• Love came down at Christmas, by Alexander L’Estrange

Secular music:

• Across the vast, eternal sky, by Ola Gjeilo
• The gift to be simple (arr. Bob Chilcott)
• Tribute to Tina Medley (arr. SATB Kirby Shaw)
• We built this city, by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page (arr. SATB Kirby Shaw)

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14 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Stephen L. Carletti: Versicles and responses
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Ave regina caelorum
• Isabella Leonarda: Gloriosa mater Domini
• John Rutter: Arise, shine

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13 October 2023

Sacred music:

• An Irish blessing (arr. James E. Moore)

Christmas music:

• The Christ-child’s lullaby (arr. John J. Brackenborough)
• Ding! dong! merrily on high (arr. Mark Burrows)
• Gaudete! (arr. SS Howard Goodall)
• O hielges Kind (arr. Burkhart M. Schürmann)

Secular music:

• Omni sol (Let your heart be staid), by Z. Randall Stroope

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12 October 2023

Christmas music:

• The first Nowell, by Bob Chilcott
• Master in this hall (arr. Jerrick Cavagnaro)

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11 October 2023

Secular music:

• An die Musik, by Franz Schubert (arr. SATB Alan Bullard)
• Satsumas are the only fruit, by Paul Ayres

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10 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Arthur Foote: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B flat

Secular music:

• The Wellerman (arr. TTBB Roger Emerson)

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9 October 2023

Christmas music:

• Still, still, still (arr. Duncan Lloyd)

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8 October 2023

Sacred music:

• John Clarke-Whitfeld: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A
• John Clarke-Whitfeld: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A minor
• John Clarke-Whitfeld: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
• John Clarke-Whitfeld: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E
• John Clarke-Whitfeld: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat I
• John Clarke-Whitfeld: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E flat II
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Tristitia et anxietas
• Philippe de Monte: Peccantem me quotidie

Secular music:

• Allala pia calia, by Orlande de Lassus

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7 October 2023

Christmas music:

• Serenissima una noche, by Gerónimo González (ed. Matthew D. Oltman)

Secular music:

• Stars I shall find, by Victor C. Johnson

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6 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Mårten Jansson: Missa Popularis

Christmas music:

• There is no rose, by Bob Chilcott

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4 October 2023

Sacred music:

• An Irish blessing (arr. James I. Moore)

Secular music:

• Blue skies, by Irving Berlin (arr. SATB Mark Hayes)
• Esta tierra, by Javier Busto
• Zorongo, by Francisco Vila

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3 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Ēriks Ešenvalds: Infelix ego

Secular music:

• A quiet night, by Natalia Tsupryk

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2 October 2023

Sacred music:

• African prayer (Nkosi Sikelel’ Iafrika – Gweddi Affricanaidd), by Enoch Sontonga (arr. TTBB Eric Jones)
• Anfonaf Angel (Guardian Angel) TTBB, by Robat Arwyn
• Saints bound for heaven (arr. SATB Alice Parker and Robert Shaw)
• When the saints go marching in (arr. TTBB Denys Hood)

Secular music:

• Revecy venir du printans, by Claude Le Jeune
• Shenandoah (arr TTBB Jeff Funk)
• The sound of silence, by Paul Simon (arr. TTBB Gwyn Arch)
• Take me home TTBB, by Rod Edwards and Roger Hood)
• Tea for two, by Vincent Youmans (arr. TBB C. Price and Graham Bissett)
• What would I do without music? by Harry Middlebrooks (arr. TTB Alwyn Humphreys)

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1 October 2023

Sacred music:

• Robert Busiakiewicz: Think on these things

Secular music:

• Music Hall Medley (arr. SAB Peter Lawson)

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