Preparing for Christmas Eve

Join the Adult Choir this Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 6:30 for a final Christmas Eve rehearsal. We are preparing one new piece--Once in Royal David's City--and one familiar--the O Holy Night that we sang for Carols by Candlelight. Looking forward to another beautiful worship experience with you.

Here is the schedule for the remainder of the week for all ensembles:

Wednesday, Dec. 22

5:45: Brass in Sanctuary
6:15: Youth and Children's Choirs who are singing on Christmas Eve in their usual rooms
6:30: Bells and Brass in Sanctuary
6:30: Adult Choir in Jennie Roberts Room
6:45: Adult, Youth, and Children's Choir with Bells and Instrumentalists in Sanctuary

Friday, Dec. 24
4:15: Brass in Organist's Office
4:15: Adult, Youth, and Children's Choir with Bells and Instrumentalists in Sanctuary
4:40: Prelude music begins

After the Holidays
Choir resumes on Sunday, Jan. 9 at 9:15.

Wednesday Rehearsal

Join us at 7:00-8:30 for our orchestral rehearsal as we prepare for Carols by Candlelight.

Rehearsal Only This Sunday

We are treated to a Sunday, this week, when we can simply work ahead on music and not need to prepare something for worship that day. Join us as we continue to prepare music for Sunday morning, Dec. 19; Carols by Candelight 7:00, Dec. 19; and Christmas Eve 5:00. Hope to see you there.

Wednesday Rehearsals Continue

Join us Wednesday, Dec. 8 from 7:00-8:30 as we prepare music for the
Carols by Candlelight program.

In addition to many carols, the choir will be featured in three works:

Advent Canticle by Mark Shepperd
Christmas Day by Gustav Holst
O Holy Night arr. John Leavitt

See/hear recordings for these three works in the Rehearsal Resources section.

This event proved to be an amazing venture last year. It is worth your time to be a part of it. Come and sing with us.

The Canticle of the Turning

Join us this Sunday morning as we sing John Ferguson's setting of an Irish folk tune, The Canticle of the Turning. The text of this work focuses on the idea of the world gradually become the place, the Kingdom that Jesus hoped it would become.

There is a YouTube recording of the piece at the right side of this blog page. It is not the setting that we will be singing. However, the text is included on the video and that is the primary challenge of the piece: it moves quickly and there is a lot of text.

Remember, we are on our new Advent schedule with rehearsal at 9:00-9:50am then we break for intergenerational Sunday School--Advent-ure.