DECEMBER 24/25, 2010 - St. James's Episcopal Church
DECEMBER 24/25, 2010 - St. James's Episcopal Church
DECEMBER 24/25, 2010 - St. James's Episcopal Church
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6:00 P.M. SERVICE<br />
Ding Dong! Merrily on high is an arrangement by David Willcocks of a 16 th -<br />
century French melody. Willcocks served Director of Music at King’s College,<br />
Cambridge, from 1950 until 1974, when he became Director of the Royal College<br />
of Music. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1971. The text is by George. R.<br />
Woodward (1848-1934), an Anglican priest and linguist who made many<br />
translations from Latin, German and Greek and who also served as editor of<br />
including the influential Cowley Carol Book.<br />
In the Bleak Midwinter is a setting of a well-loved poem by Christina Rossetti<br />
(1830-94). The daughter of an Italian refugee who was a professor at King’s College<br />
London, she grew up in a cultured and artistic family. Her first volume of poems<br />
was published when she was twelve. Another of Rossetti’s Christmas poems, “Love<br />
came down at Christmas” appears in Hymnal 1982. The English composer Harold<br />
Darke (1888-1976) was organist at <strong>St</strong>. Michael’s, Cornhill (London), for fifty years.<br />
He composed extensively for organ and choir, but is best known for In the Bleak<br />
Midwinter and the hymn tune Cornhill, “Lord Jesus, Son of Righteousness” (Hymn<br />
144).<br />
WEST GALLERY CHOIR<br />
Soprano<br />
Vienna Cobb Anderson<br />
Myra Carroll<br />
Darien Fisher-Duke<br />
Nancy Goodall<br />
Jane Harrison<br />
Karen Harper<br />
Mary Horton<br />
Anita Lisk<br />
Mary Lou Trache<br />
Antonia FD Vassar<br />
Taffy Williams<br />
Diane Wright<br />
Alto<br />
Ellen Buoyer<br />
Sarah Coxon<br />
Anne Daniel<br />
Becky DeCamps<br />
Amy Dilworth<br />
Hortense Liberti<br />
Fran McDermott<br />
Christine Newbold<br />
Ann Rawls<br />
Jane Thompson<br />
Mollie Watts<br />
Tenor<br />
George Bishop<br />
Scott Ellett<br />
Gordon Graham<br />
Richard Rumble<br />
Trey Sibley<br />
Andy Smith<br />
Massie Valentine<br />
Sam Zimmer<br />
Bass<br />
Robert Angle<br />
Tim Carroll<br />
Chris Edwards<br />
Russell Lawson<br />
Dave Johnson<br />
Alan <strong>St</strong>one<br />
Patrick <strong>St</strong>rickler<br />
Bill Thrower<br />
10:30 P.M. CHORAL PRELUDE AND 11:00 P.M. SERVICE<br />
Messiah is the most successful and best known of Handel’s oratorios. It was<br />
composed in twenty-four days in August and September of 1741. The first<br />
performance was at a concert given to benefit local charities in Dublin, Ireland on<br />
April 13, 1742, with Handel himself conducting. It was not until two years later that<br />
Messiah was premiered in London, where, surprisingly, it was not considered a<br />
success. It was only when it was revived in 1750 for a charitable performance in the<br />
chapel of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital that it received widespread praise.<br />
Thereafter, Handel presented Messiah every year. The entire first section of Messiah<br />
deals with prophecy concerning the advent of the Messiah and the birth and life of<br />
Jesus; and the first five numbers are based on texts from the 40 th chapter of Isaiah.<br />
Soprano<br />
Vienna Cobb Anderson<br />
Anne Cronly<br />
Darien Fisher-Duke<br />
Karen Harper<br />
Sabrina LaFleur<br />
Jeanne Lapierre<br />
Sarah Motley<br />
Amanda Price<br />
Robin Price<br />
Jenny Roystone<br />
Antonia FD Vassar<br />
PARISH CHOIR<br />
Alto<br />
Betsy Blair<br />
Sarah Brewer<br />
Patty Duffy<br />
Cameron Flippen<br />
Jovan Howard<br />
Heather Jones<br />
Susan Mellott<br />
Becky Merrick<br />
Betsy Mitchell<br />
Liz Nance<br />
Nancy Phillips<br />
Tenor<br />
Rick Mellott<br />
Chris Rock<br />
Drew McFayden<br />
Charles Nance<br />
Mark Shuford<br />
Scott Triplett<br />
Scott Corwin<br />
Bass<br />
Matt Jewell<br />
Matt Presson<br />
Vernon Priddy<br />
<strong>St</strong>even Ralph<br />
Jim Richter<br />
Courtenay Reynolds<br />
Matthew <strong>St</strong>anley<br />
Casey Urso