speaking of Christmas songs...

[franktangredi]

Tomorrow evening is my church choir's annual Christmas concert. We lost a few key members this year, including both of our tenors. So I have actually been singing tenor this year. This becomes especially interesting in our men-only rendition of God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen. I didn't know I had those notes! (Thank God for the head voice.)

After about ten straight years of doing Toyland, I am also changing my solo number this year. I'm going to try a rendition of Good King Wenceslas, playing both the king and the page, plus the narrator. Might be interesting. Might be boring.

For those interested in such things, here is the rest of the program (not counting solos). Most are pieces we do every year.

Come Emanuel
Every Valley
Still Still Still
There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob (my favorite piece to do every year)
I Shall Know Him When He Comes
Home for the Holidays (I have a solo in this, as well)

[Tocqueville3]

Tomorrow evening is my church choir's annual Christmas concert. We lost a few key members this year, including both of our tenors. So I have actually been singing tenor this year. This becomes especially interesting in our men-only rendition of God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen. I didn't know I had those notes! (Thank God for the head voice.)

After about ten straight years of doing Toyland, I am also changing my solo number this year. I'm going to try a rendition of Good King Wenceslas, playing both the king and the page, plus the narrator. Might be interesting. Might be boring.

For those interested in such things, here is the rest of the program (not counting solos). Most are pieces we do every year.

Come Emanuel
Every Valley
Still Still Still
There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob (my favorite piece to do every year)
I Shall Know Him When He Comes
Home for the Holidays (I have a solo in this, as well)

We are doing Still Still Still also. I'm not crazy about this song but the congregation always seems to love it. The tempo is so sloooooow.

There Shall a Star Come out of Jacob is my fav from Handel's Messiah. We need to do it again for Lessons and Carols soon. Last year we did And He Shall Purify.

Our Lessons and Carols are next Sunday, Dec. 21. Let's see if I can remember the lineup.

Once In Royal David City
I Saw Three Ships
Climb To the Top of the Highest Mountain
Ubi Caritas
Nova! Nova!
One December Bright and Clear
Where Riches is Everlasting
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Still Still Still
The First Nowell
Carol to the King

[earendel]

Tomorrow evening is my church choir's annual Christmas concert. We lost a few key members this year, including both of our tenors. So I have actually been singing tenor this year. This becomes especially interesting in our men-only rendition of God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen. I didn't know I had those notes! (Thank God for the head voice.)

After about ten straight years of doing Toyland, I am also changing my solo number this year. I'm going to try a rendition of Good King Wenceslas, playing both the king and the page, plus the narrator. Might be interesting. Might be boring.

For those interested in such things, here is the rest of the program (not counting solos). Most are pieces we do every year.

Come Emanuel
Every Valley
Still Still Still
There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob (my favorite piece to do every year)
I Shall Know Him When He Comes
Home for the Holidays (I have a solo in this, as well)

Our Sanctuary Choir performed "Kneeling toward Bethlehem", a series of songs and readings arranged by Michael Burkhardt, last Sunday morning. My favorite piece was one called "Methinks I Hear", originally written by William Billings and sung in what sounds very much like a shaped note arrangement. We do our "Lessons and Carols" service on Christmas Eve.