It's that time of year again for choir members!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

The Advent season kicked off with a whole slew of anthems, two at the regular morning service and more at the special Advent Evensong this afternoon.

Morning: Rorate Coeli by Palestrina
The Truth from Above by Vaughan Williams


Afternoon: New setting of entrance sequence (The one that begins "I look from afar...") for soprano solo, women's trio, men's quartet, and full choir

Plainsong sequence "Rorate Coeli"

"Adam Lay Y-Bounden" by John Ireland

"There is No Rose" by Joubert

"Canite Tuba" by Guerrero

"I Wonder as I Wander"

"Laetentur Caeli" by Byrd

"Hymne a la Vierge" by Villette

By the end of December, we will have sung two Lessons and Carols services, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.

So what does your choir have scheduled?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Do you sing in a local choir? Or a church choir?

I have a friend who just moved to St. Paul, and if you have concerts outside of worship I bet he'd like to know about them.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. I'm in a church choir, and on March 19, we'll be doing

Howells' Requiem
Marcel Dupre's De Profundis
and something by Charpentier whose name I forget and which we haven't started learning yet. It's suitabley gloomy for Lent, though.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Correction and update--

We'll be doing Howells' Requiem, for sure.

Also "Le Deniement de Saint Pierre" ("The Denial of St. Peter") by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Francis Poulenc's "Litanie a la Vierge Noire."

Not exactly a program of old chestnuts, eh?