| Carols from the Yard
A service of lessons & carols at Memorial Church, Harvard University
The Harvard University Choir
The Bach Society Orchestra
Murray Forbes Somerville, director
Nancy B. Granert, organist
World Premier Recording!
Since 1910, the tradition of the Harvard Carol Service has grown so popular that it is now sung on two successive evenings. With Memorial Church's large 4-manual Fisk organ and the excellent Harvard University Choir, this is a service that deserves its immense popularity.
Prelude: Woodman: In dulci jubilo
Introit: In dulci julbio
Processional Hymn: Adeste fideles
Sentences from Scripture and Invocation
Palestrina: Canite tuba
Callahan: Come rejoicing, praises voicing
Schütz: Ein Kind is uns geboren
Hymn: Holst: Personent hodie
The Second Lesson
Brahms: Ave Maria
Spiritual, arr Dawson: Mary Had a Baby
Spanish trad: Riu, Riu, Chiu
Niedmann: In the ending of the Year
The Third Lesson
Darke: In the bleak mid-winter
arr. Near: And all in the morning
Basque carol, arr Willcocks: Sing lullaby
Praetorius: To us is born Immanuel
arr. Schulz-Widmar: Jesus, Jesus, rest your head
Hymn: Silent Night
Prayers and the Lord's Prayer
Hymn: Joy to the world
Byrd: Benediction and Choral Amen (sung from the Memorial Room)
Postlude: Cook: Paean on Divinum Mysterium |
