Christmas Concert Dec 2014, 14th December

An uplifting Christmas Concert, with our special guests The Dell School singing club. It is always a wonderful way to celebrate the Christmas festivities, and to take a break from the hustlle and bustle of the High Street shops !

• Programme

Choral Greeting W Walton What Cheer
Congregational: O Come All Ye Faithful
Reading 1 God speaks to Adam and Eve (Genesis, chapter 3)
Choir Adam Lay y Bounden B Ord This Is The Truth R Vaughan Williams
Reading 2 The Angel Gabriel salutes Mary (Luke, chapter 1)
Choir I sing of a Maiden P Hadley Ave Maria A Bruckner
Congregational: Unto Us is Born a Son
Reading 3 Christmas Presents anon.
Dell Primary School Singing Group

Reading 4 St Luke tells of the birth of Jesus (Luke, chapter 2)
Choir Ding Dong Ding arr GR Woodward Sussex Carol arr. D Willcocks O Little One Sweet JS Bach

Congregational: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Reading 5 The shepherds go to the manger (Luke, chapter 2)
Choir A Child is Born in Bethlehem S Scheidt Shepherd’s Pipe Carol J Rutter
Congregational: See, Amid the Winter’s Snow
Reading 6 A Child’s Christmas in Wales Dylan Thomas
Choir Resonumus Laudibus arr. D Willcocks Sir Christemas W Mathias
Congregational: Hark the Herald Angels Sing (vv 1–3)
Choir We wish you a Merry Christmas arr. A Warrell
Organ Toccata (from Suite Gothique) Boëllmann