Let Heaven and Nature Sing!

Christmas 2019
What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
If I were a wise man, I would do my part;
yet what I can I give him - 
give my heart.

"In the bleak midwinter," Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

You are invited to worship with us at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Omaha at 4:00, 7:30, and 10:30 on Christmas Eve and 10:30 a.m. on Christmas Day. Prelude music for choir and instruments begins at 7:00 and 10:00 on Christmas Eve.

Music for Christmas Eve

 4:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist and Pageant
7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Festival Choral Eucharist
(Prelude music begins at 7:00 and 10:00 p.m.)

 Hymns
83   O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
96   Angels we have heard on high (Gloria)
99   Go tell it on the mountain (Go Tell It on the Mountain) (4:00 only)
109 The first Nowell (The First Nowell)
100   Joy to the world! (Antioch)
105   God rest you merry, gentlemen (God Rest You Merry) (7:30/10:30 only)
111   Silent night, holy night (Stille nacht)
87   Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)

 Service Music
Psalm 96     St. Martin's Psalter, Thomas Pavlechko
Sanctus S-125     Richard Proulx
Memorial Acclamation S-128     McNeil Robinson II
Great Amen S-146     Robinson
Fraction Anthem S-154     David Hurd

 Anthems
4:00 - Cantate and Laudate Choirs
Hodie Christus Natus Est     Michael Bedford
O Sleep Now, Holy Baby (A la ru)     Hispanic carol, arr. 

 7:00/10:00 - Cathedral Choir and Schola Cantorum
Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light     Johann Sebastian Bach
Away in a Manger     David Ashley White
Silent Night     Michael John Trotta
O magnum mysterium     Morten Lauridsen
See amid the winter snow     John Goss
What child is this     Andrew Gant
What Sweeter Music     John Rutter
Once in royal David's city     arr. David Willcocks

 Instrumental Music

7:00 - Music for Harp
Still, Still, Still     Austrian carol, arr. Yolanda Kondonassis
Short Fantasy on a Neapolitan Carol     arr. Carlos Salzedo
Coventry Carol     arr. Ray Pool
Of the Father's Love Begotten     arr. Pool
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear     arr. Salzedo

 10:00 - Music for Brass Quintet
In Dulci Jubilo     German carol, arr. Warren Wernick
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming     Anonymous 16th century, arr. Chris O'Hara
Sussex Carol     English carol, arr. Roger Harvey
Joseph, Lieber, Joseph mein     Johann Walther, arr. Gary Olson
7:00/10:00 - Organ Voluntary
In dulci jubilo     Johann Sebastian Bach

 Music for Christmas Day 

Hymns
83   O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fidelis)
96   Angels we have heard on high (Gloria)
87   Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)
109 The first Nowell (The First Nowell)
115   What child is this (Greensleeves)
100   Joy to the world! (Antioch)
Service Music

Sanctus S-125     Richard Proulx


 Organ Voluntaries
In the Bleak Midwinter     arr. Albin C. Whitworth

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen     Michael McCabe
In dulci jubilo     Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau
Of the Father's Love Begotten     arr. Wilbur Held
Noel     Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Carpentier





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