Music Notes for Christmas 2010: Rounding out the Advent season to the joy of Christmas, our Pre-service December 24th, Music begins at 10:30. Three anthems & four carols about the Christ Child born at Bethlehem will be sung before, ‘O come, all ye faithful,’ commonly called, Adeste fidelis. Our service’s main anthem is by Gustav Holst, ‘Lullay, my Liking.’ Featuring our chorister soloists, Curtis & Ben Kitchen and Mitchell Ventura at the 4 P.M. celebration and Ellen Vadney & Caroline Goddard at the 11, it is a joyous, yet quiet song as imagined sung by Mary, as she holds her new born boy, the Son of God. Between Mary’s lullaby refrain, the choir sings the story, as if from the angels’ perspective of their witness as it happened. The poem comes from the 15^th century in ‘A Mediaeval Anthology,’ published 1915 and Holst set the text in a semi – mediaeval mode in melodic & harmonic content. January 2 at 10 A.M., we will read & sing a Festival of Lessons & Carols at Emmanuel, repeating the setting by Jonathan Willcocks, the son of one of England’s most talented, famous and celebrated church musicians, Sir David Willcocks. Its format gives us the opportunity to praise in carols & scriptural songs for all and the choir as anthems, as we draw our Christmas celebrations to a close, awaiting the revelation of the Epiphany – Christ the light of the world, even unto the gentiles. We will need readers for the 9 Lessons for that service and I invite you to please see or email me, a.s.a.p., if you would like and can read for this service. We keep our lights burning brightly, through Epiphany, as the rest of the world turns off its lights all too early, discarding decorations, gift wrap & trees. We continue to celebrate the coming of the light into the world, the Prince of Peace, to ‘men (all) of good-will.’ Peace and see you at worship, Christmas, December 24^th & beyond – AJH

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