7 December 2008
2nd Sunday in Advent
Conductor: Peter Hallock
Reader: Joel Matter
Cantor: Jason Anderson
PROCESSIONAL: The Second Song of Isaiah (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
PSALM: 85 (plainsong, Tone I)
HYMN: "Comfort, comfort ye my people" (melody by Claude Goudimel [1514 - 1573]; arr. by Louis Bourgeois [ca. 1510 - ca. 1561])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4)
ANTHEM: "De caelo veniet" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])
14 December 2008
3rd Sunday in Advent
Conductor: Peter Hallock
Reader: William Turnipseed
Cantor: Jason Anderson
PROCESSIONAL: "O come, O come, Emmanuel" (Veni, veni, Emmanuel, plainsong, Mode I, Processionale, 15th century)
PSALM: 126 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Hark! the glad sound! the Savior comes" (Tune: Bristol, melody from Ravenscroft’s Psalter, 1621)
NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4)
ANTHEM: "Rorate caeli" (sung for the first time) (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
21 December 2008
4th Sunday in Advent
Conductor: Jason Anderson
Reader: Jeremy Matheis
Cantor: Richard Greene
ORISON: "Of the Father’s love begotten" (Divinum mysterium, Sanctus trope, 11th century)
PSALM: 147 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "Lo, how a rose e’er blooming" (Michael Prætorius [ca. 1571 - 1621], Carl Orff [1895 - 1982])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainson setting, Tone III Ending 4)
ANTHEMS: 1) "Lullay, My Liking" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
2) "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from the Mass for three voices (William Byrd [1539/40 - 1623])
28 December 2008
1st Sunday after Christmas
Conductor: Peter Hallock
Reader: William Turnipseed
Cantor: Richard Greene
ORISON: "Of the Father’s love begotten" (Divinum mysterium, Sanctus trope, 11th century)
PSALM: 147 (Peter Hallock)
HYMN: "In the bleak midwinter" (tune: Cranham, Gustav Theodore Holst [1874 - 1934])
NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes, Tone II Ending 1)
ANTHEMS: 1) The Coventry Carol (from the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, 15th century)
2) "Deo gratia persolvamus" (Anonymous, ca. 1430)