2021 Christmas Festival: The Earth Adorned

Welcome to the 2021 Christmas Festival: The Earth Adorned. Click below to easily skip to any portion of the program. Thank you for being part of NLC's Christmas Festival.

12:59 - Introduction from Brenda Bartz, Chair of the National Lutheran Choir Board of Directors
15:41 - Program start - Carol - Of the Father's Love Begotten, DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (Public Domain)
17:12 - Reading - The world is changed, Gerard Manley Hopkins
18:32 - Reading - The prodigious lengths of time, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
20:26 - Reading - God is a supernatural, inscrutable being, by Martin Luther
21:45 - Anthem) Creation Suite, arr. Larry Fleming (Musica Russica, Walton)
29:30 - Reading - How are you at once, Symeon the New Theologian
30:33 - Anthem - Winter Solstice Carol, William Beckstrand (MorningStar)
35:08 - Reading - By the words of the Lord God’s works are made, Sirach 42 and 43
36:02 - Carol - O Come, All Ye Faithful; ADESTE FIDELES, attr. John Francis Wade
41:00 - Anthem - Frohlocket ihr Völker auf Erden, Felix Mendelssohn (Alliance)
42:44 - Anthem - Chanticleer, Aaron David Miller © Aaron David Miller.
46:08 - Carol - Angels We Have Heard on High; GLORIA, arr. Edward S. Barnes
48:00 - Anthem - See Amid the Winter’s Snow, David Cherwien (MorningStar)
52:26 - Anthem - Noel Ayisyen (A Haitian Noël), Emile Desamours (Shawnee)
55:31 - Carol - Joy to the World; ANTIOCH, arr. Lowell Mason.
57:04 - Anthem - Winds Through the Olive Trees, arr. Paul Christiansen (Alfred)
59:57 - Anthem - The Orbit Carol (from Rite of Passage), text and music Paul John Rudoi (PJR Music)
1:04:06 - Anthem - Videntes stellam Magi, César Alejandro Carillo (earthsongs)
1:07:05 - Anthem - Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (from Carols of the Nativity), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, arr. Stephen Chatman (ECS Publishing)
1:08:48 - Carol - Away in a Manger; AWAY IN A MANGER, James R. Murray
1:10:13 - Anthem - Mary’s Child, Bob Chilcott (Oxford)
1:13:16 - Carol - Silent Night; STILLE NACHT, Franz Gruber
1:15:03 - Reading - The Proclamation of Christmas, (Kalenda) from the Roman Martyrology
1:16:23 - Anthem - This Night; O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE, Johan B. König, arr. F. Melius Christiansen (Augsburg Fortress)
1:19:33 - Reading - The Infinite a sudden guest, Emily Dickinson
1:19:48 - Anthem - All Earth is Hopeful, Toda la Tierra (All Earth is Waiting), Alberto Taulé & Tirso Vaquero, TODA LA TIERRA, newly composed by David Cherwien (MorningStar)
1:22:37 - Reading - Nature’s decorations glisten, Christopher Smart
1:23:35 - Carol - Of the Father’s Love Begotten; DIVINUM MYSTERIUM (Public Domain)
1:27:01 - Reading - A wonder is Thy mother, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, trans. Rev. John Brande Morris, adapt. Susan Palo Cherwien
1:27:55 - Anthem - All of Creation Rejoices, Pavel Chesnokov (Musica Russica)
1:31:46 - Reading - i thank You God for most this amazing day, e.e. cummings
1:32-58 - Anthem - Tonight Eternity Alone, Rene Clausen (Shawnee)


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