The Harvard University Choir 2014-12-14
Harvard Memorial Church at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Set 1
105th Carols Service, December 14, 2014 performance, excerpts:
with Thomas Sheehan, organ
radio intro
O Radiant Dawn (James MacMillan, b.1959)
Alma Redemptoris Mater
(Giovanni Palestrina, 1525-1594; text by Hermann Contractus, 1013-1054))
Love Came Down at Christmas
(Leo Sowerby, 1895-1968; text by Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894)
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
(German Catholic hymn ca.1599, harmonized in 1609 by Michael Praetorius)
Behold a Lovely Vine
(Jeremiah Ingalls, 1764-1828; text from "Divine Hymns", edited by Joshua Smith, 1800)
What Sweeter Music
(John Rutter, b.1945; text by Robert Herrick, 1591-1674)
Gloria, in excelsis Deo (from the Christmas Cantata, Daniel Pinkham, 1923-2006; traditional text from the Latin Mass and Psalm 1-3)
Ding Dong Merrily on High
(traditional English carol, arranged by Charles Wood, 1866-1926; text by George R. Woodward, 1848-1934))
Angels We Have Heard on High
(traditional French carol, harmonized by Edward Shippen Barnes, 1887-1958)
I Wonder as I Wander
(Carl Rutti, b.1949; text attributed to John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980)
A Soldier's Carol [world premiere, Harvard University Choir commission 2014]
(Ronald Perera, Harvard class of 1963; text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882)
Wise Men Came Journeying [world premiere, Harvard University Choir commission 2014]
(Carson P. Cooman, Harvard Class of 2004; text by Shirley Erena Murray, b.1931)
Lux aurumque
(Eric Whitacre, b.1970, Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri, b.1965)
Suo-gân (traditional Welsh carol, arranged by Edward Elwyn Jones, b.1977)
Look-a That Star (Jay Althouse, b.1951)
Postlude, organ outro: Improvisation on "Adeste Fidelis"
(Francis Pott, b.1957); Thomas Sheehan, organ
radio outro
with Thomas Sheehan, organ
radio intro
O Radiant Dawn (James MacMillan, b.1959)
Alma Redemptoris Mater
(Giovanni Palestrina, 1525-1594; text by Hermann Contractus, 1013-1054))
Love Came Down at Christmas
(Leo Sowerby, 1895-1968; text by Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894)
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
(German Catholic hymn ca.1599, harmonized in 1609 by Michael Praetorius)
Behold a Lovely Vine
(Jeremiah Ingalls, 1764-1828; text from "Divine Hymns", edited by Joshua Smith, 1800)
What Sweeter Music
(John Rutter, b.1945; text by Robert Herrick, 1591-1674)
Gloria, in excelsis Deo (from the Christmas Cantata, Daniel Pinkham, 1923-2006; traditional text from the Latin Mass and Psalm 1-3)
Ding Dong Merrily on High
(traditional English carol, arranged by Charles Wood, 1866-1926; text by George R. Woodward, 1848-1934))
Angels We Have Heard on High
(traditional French carol, harmonized by Edward Shippen Barnes, 1887-1958)
I Wonder as I Wander
(Carl Rutti, b.1949; text attributed to John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980)
A Soldier's Carol [world premiere, Harvard University Choir commission 2014]
(Ronald Perera, Harvard class of 1963; text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882)
Wise Men Came Journeying [world premiere, Harvard University Choir commission 2014]
(Carson P. Cooman, Harvard Class of 2004; text by Shirley Erena Murray, b.1931)
Lux aurumque
(Eric Whitacre, b.1970, Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri, b.1965)
Suo-gân (traditional Welsh carol, arranged by Edward Elwyn Jones, b.1977)
Look-a That Star (Jay Althouse, b.1951)
Postlude, organ outro: Improvisation on "Adeste Fidelis"
(Francis Pott, b.1957); Thomas Sheehan, organ
radio outro
Set 2
Set 3
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