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Escape to…The Light of the Star – December 2009

Lo, There is Light, Matthew Orlovich, Reginald Heber and AB (Banjo) Paterson
O Nata Lux, Guy Forbes, Traditional
Lux Aurumque, Eric Whitacre, Edward Esch, Latin Translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri
There is no Rose, Melinda Bargeen, Anonymous (1420)
To Him We Sing, Robert H. Young, Traditional English
Christ’s Nativity (1931), Benjamin Britten
1. Christ’s Nativity, Words: Henry Vaughan
2. Sweet was the Song, Words: taken from William Ballet’s Lute Book
3. Preparations, Words: Christ Church M.S.
4. New Prince, New Pomp, Words: from Scripture and poem of Robert Southwell
5. Carol of King Cnut, Words: C.W. Stubbs
Before the Paling of the Stars, Leo Nestor, Christina Rossetti
Star Song, Robert Convery, Adapted from the works of Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
Behold the Star, William L. Dawson
Quem pastores laudavere, James Bassi, Anonymous, 14th century, hoenfurth manuscript
Shepherds, Rejoice!, Knoxville Harmony, Isaac Watts, arr. by Paul Carey
Run Shepherds, Run , Richard Wayne Dirksen, William Drummond of HawthoRnden
Twelfth Night, Samuel Barber, Laurie Lee
Star Unto Glory, Don Michael Dicie, S.R. Lee
Marcho di rei (La Marche des Rois), Anonymous, Marche de J.F. Domergue (1742), Turenne, 17th century, arr. G. Bizet & Anne Heider
The Three Kings, Healey Willan, Laurence Housman
We Three Kings, John Henry Hopkins, arr. by Dave Brubeck
The Three Kings, Jonathan Dove, Dorothy L. Sayers
I Wonder as I Wander , John Jacob Niles, arr. by Steve Pilkington
If Ye Would Hear the Angels Sing, Old Dutch Carol, English Text by Dora Greenwell (1821-1882), arr. by Martha Shaffer
On this Starry Night, Matthew Harris
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, R. Fisher Boyce, Adger M. Price