Please join us for the premiere of the NOËL CONCERT Premiere on the First Sunday of Advent, November 29, 2020 at 4:30 PM.
We will be watching this concert together with its performers at its YouTube premiere at https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk. You can go there now and click the bell symbol to receive a reminder notification so you don’t miss it on Sunday the 29th.
If you have ever been to this annual Advent concert in our sanctuary, you know what a treasure it is, with four outstanding performers who blend beautifully: Julie Ness, Timothy Cummings and Annemieke and Jeremiah McLane. This excellent film by Michael Fisher makes the performance as intimate and moving as it would be if seen from the pews, if not more so.
Please share this URL https://youtu.be/KKduwz8JoXk with all your friends and family around the world and join the performers for the concert’s premiere on Sunday, November 29, 2020 at 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US) as a beautiful way to enter Advent. Thank you! See you there!
Please see the concert program listed below.
Comfort, sing, listen, dear friends,
be safe, keep singing, much love,
Annemieke, Julie, Jeremiah and Tim,
United Church of Strafford, Vermont.
Performed by Julie Ness, Soprano
Timothy Cummings, Small Pipes, Whistles
Jeremiah McLane, Accordion
Annemieke McLane, Piano
“A Solis Ortus Cardine” Melody: anon. Sarum chant (medieval Britain); Text: Coelius Sedulius (Italy, c. 450), translation: J. M. Neale.
“Pifa” (Pastoral Symphony), from Messiah, G. F. Händel (1685-1759)
“Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”, 14th century German, anon, Th. Baker (1851-1934) German melody arranged by M. Praetorius (1561- 1621)
“L’engageante”, F. Couperin (1668-1733)
“Love at the Door”(1934) S. Barber (1910-1981)
“Corpus Christi Carol” B. Britten (1913-1976)
“Misteriou Joaius” trad. Breton/ “Nous voici dans la ville” anon.15th cent.French
“The Christ Child Lullaby”, or Tàladh Chrìosda. Trad. Hebrides (Scotland) *** Audience can join on “Alleluia”
“A Babe in Bethlehem” Oykan ayes Bethlehem, trad. Manx gaelic/“On to Bethlehem Town” Tua Bethlem Dref, trad. Welsh/ D.Evans
“In the Bleak Midwinter” C. Rossetti, G. Holst/arr. C. Courtney
“Comfort, Comfort Ye My People”, composed or adapted by Louis Bourgeois, in his Genevan Psalter, 1551 / “Christmas Is Coming”, trad. Lowland & Borders (Scotland/England)
“Priez pour paix”, 1938, Ch. d’Orleans text, F. Poulenc (1899-1963)
“Silent Night”, 1818, F.X. Gruber & J. Mohr
United Church of Strafford, Vermont 