News September 2023

30 September 2023

Christmas music:

• I am Christmas Day, by Howard Goodall
• Jajang, jajang, Ahgi Yesu, by Hyun Chul Lee
• My dancing day (arr. Bob Chilcott)
• Noel, noel, noel, by Antoine Busnois
• Nu is die roe van Jesse (arr. Vic Nees)

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29 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Giovanni Gabrieli: Regina coeli à 12

Secular music:

• Moment for Morricone, by Ennio Morricone (arr. Johan de Mey)

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28 September 2023

Christmas music:

• An African celebration (arr. SATB Sally K. Albrecht)
• Do you hear what I hear, by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne (arr. SATB Craig Courtney)
• Last Christmas, by George Michael (arr. Greg Gilpin)
• O holy night, by Adolphe Adam (arr. Jay Rouse)
• Sparklejollytwinklejingley, by Matthew Sklar (arr. SATB Andy Beck)
• While shepherds watched (Coventry carol) (arr. Jay Rouse)

Secular music:

• Stay another day, by Anthony Michael Mortimer (arr. Knut Olav Rygnestad)

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26 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Amazing Grace (arr. Stephen Hatfield)

Christmas music:

• A holly jolly Christmas, by Johnny Marks (arr. TTB Stephen DeCesare)
• It came upon the midnight clear, by Richard S. Willis (arr. D. Lloyd)
• A little child is born (TTBB), by Harry Koning
• There is faint music (TTBB), by Dan Forrest

Secular music:

• Home, by Eric Whitacre
• Homeland, by Gustav Holst (arr. Z. Randall Stroope)
• If I must go, by Thomas LaVoy
• Love songs of the flowers, by Duncan Lloyd

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25 September 2023

Sacred music:

• John Brunning: Pie Jesu (arr. SSSA John Langley)
• William H. Harris: Fear not, O land

Christmas music:

• Away in a manger (arr. David Hill)
• Dream song, by Steve King
• Silent night, by Franz Gruber (arr. Boyz II Men)
• This is the truth sent from above, by Alan Bullard

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24 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Roger Calmel: Dies irae (from Requiem)

Christmas music:

• Christmas carol sing-along (arr. Dan Goeller)
• It’s the most wonderful time of the year, by Eddie Pola and George Wyle (arr. SATB Mark Brymer)
• A Muppet Christmas carol medley, by Paul Williams (arr. SATB Ryan O’Connell)

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23 September 2023

Christmas music:

• A la nanita nana (arr. SAB Greg Gilpin)
• Candles and crowns, by Christopher Norton
• Give me a silent night, by Julie Gardner Bray
• Nowell nowell, by Christopher Norton
• Snowlight, by Deborah Sumner

Secular music:

• En mer, by Pauline Viardot (arr. Edward-Rhys Harry)
• What sustains the world? by Edward-Rhys Harry)

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22 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Giovanni Gabrieli: Magnificat à 14

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21 September 2023

Christmas music:

• Angels from the realms of glory (arr. Marshall McDonald
• Mary, did you know? by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene (arr. Craig Courtney)
• O come, O come Emmanuel (arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw)

Secular music:

• Mood indigo, by Duke Ellington and Albany Bigard (arr. Douglas C. Ulreich)
• Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head, by Burt Bacharach and Hal David (arr. Anna Cedergerg-Orreteg)

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20 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Matthew Coleridge: Nunc dimittis

Secular music:

• The scribe, by Herbert Howells
• Sing, by Mitchell Grassi, Scott Hoying, Kevin Olusola, Martin Johnson and Sam Hollander (arr. SATB Mark Brymer)

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19 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Susan LaBarr: We remember them (SSAA)
• Brian Tate: Hold me, rock me (SSAA)

Christmas music:

• Carol trilogy (arr. SSAA Laura Hawley)
• Song for a winter’s night, by Gordon Lightfoot (arr. SSAA Robin Salkeld)
• White winter hymnal, by Robin Pecknold (arr. SSAA Alan Billingsley)

Secular music:

• Harmony’s never too late, by Stephen Flaherty (arr. SSAA Mark Hayes)
• Russian dance, by Peter Illych Tchaikovsky (arr. SSAA Jeff Funk)
• So still, by Brian Tate

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18 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Rejoice in the Lord alway, Anonymous (ed. James Gibb)

Christmas music:

• Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, by James Burton

Secular music:

• Life of an alien, by Bode Omojola
• The seven heavens, by James Whitbourn

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17 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Cecilia McDowall: Da Vinci Requiem

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16 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa brevis in B flat K. 275 (arr. SSAA Siegfried Strohbach)

Secular music:

• Can you feel the love tonight, by Elton John (arr. SAB Mark Brymer)
• We all stand together, by Paul McCartney (arr. SAB Robin Norman)
• A winter’s tale, by Mike Batt (arr. Katherine Brookes)

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14 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Heinrich Isaac: Laetatus sum
• George Oldroyd: Prayer to Jesus

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13 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Johannes Eccard: Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
• Gabriel Fauré: Ave Maria op. 93 (SS)

Christmas music:

• Hodie Christus natus est à 10, by Hans Leo Hassler
• Nomen eius Emmanuel, by Andrew Carter
• Quem vidistis pastores? by Hans Leo Hassler
• Song of the crib, by Bob Chilcott
• Videntes stellam Magi, by Andrea Gabrieli

Secular music:

• Springtime mantleth every bough, by Thomas Morley

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12 September 2023

Secular music:

• Mother Goose gems, by Stephen Shewan

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11 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Ashi Day: Where you go
• Anthony C. Ferreira: I keep the Sabbath staying at home

Christmas music:

• Awake, arise and hail the morn (arr. Mack Wilberg)
• Christmas bell, by Nicky Chavers (arr. Shelly Hamilton)

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10 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Felix Mendelssohn: Vom Himmel hoch

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8 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Roxanna Panufnik: Saint Pancras Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (SATB)

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7 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Pedro Fernández de Castilleja: Deo dicamus gratias
• Pedro Fernández de Castilleja: O gloriosa Domina
• Pedro Fernández de Castilleja: Salve Regina
• Francisco Guerrero: Beatus es à 4
• Francisco Guerrero: Canite tuba in F
• Francisco Guerrero: In illo tempore erat Dominus Jesus II
• Francisco Guerrero: Salve Regina I
• Francisco Guerrero: Sancta Maria
• David W. Jepson: Do not stand at my grave and weep
• Cristóbal de Morales: Antequam comedam suspiro
• Cristóbal de Morales: Asperges me à 4
• Cristóbal de Morales: O magnum mysterium (SATB)
• Cristóbal de Morales: Pastores dicite
• Cristóbal de Morales: Regina caeli laetare à 4

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6 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Robert Leech Bedell: Ave Maria

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5 September 2023

Sacred music:

• Judith Clurman (with David Chase): Eight days of lights
• Petr Dinev: Dostoyno ye (arr. SSA M. Belyakova-Vodina)
• Frederick Tillis: Salve salvage in the spin, no. 3

Christmas music:

• Love’s pure light (Silent Night), by Michael John Trotta

Secular music:

• Does the world say? by Kyle Pederson
• Sogno di volare, by Christopher Tin

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4 September 2023

Christmas music:

• A-wassailing! (arr. SATB Chad Weirick)
• Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella (arr. Howard Helvey)
• Here we come a-caroling (arr. Josh Sparkman)
• It came upon a midnight clear, by Richard Willis (arr. Marianne Forman)
• Love’s pure light (Silent Night), by Elaine Hagenberg
• O be joyful, by Toby Young
• On this silent night, by Sarah Quartel
• Pat-a-pan, by Bernard de la Monnoye (arr. Shawn Kirchner)
• This Christmastide (Jessye’s carol), by Donald Fraser
• Winter’s wait, by James Whitbourn

Secular music:

• Joy, by Hans Bridger Heruth
• Threads of joy, by Tim Brent and Amanda Quist

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2 September 2023

Christmas music:

• Balulalow, by Martin Bussey

Secular music:

• Edelweiss, by Richard Rodgers (arr. SAB Linda Spevacek)
• Somebody loves me, by George Gershwin (arr. SAB Jay Althouse)

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1 September 2023

Christmas music:

• O holy night, by Adolphe Adam (ed. James Gibb)

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