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radio intro "Child of the Manger" - Carlotta Ferrari [1837-1907] ] text by Mary MacDonald [1789-1872] translated from Gaelic by Lachlan Macbean [1853-1931] refrain from the New Testament John 1:1 "Adeste, fidelis" - Attributed to John Francis Wade [1711-1786] - Descant by David Willcocks [1919-2015] - organ interludes by John Ferris [1926-2008] "Ave Maria" ("Hail Mary") - Pierre-Louis Dietsch [1808-1865] after "Nous voyons que le hommes" - Jacques Arcadelt [1507-1568] - Traditional Latin text "There is No Rose" - Benjamin Britten from "A Ceremony of Carols", Op.28 [1942] - Text by Anonymous, 15th century "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" (aka "A Spotless Rose") - German carol "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen" [ca.1599] - Michael Praetorius harmonization [1606] "I Wonder as I Wander" - Carl Rütti [1996] - Text and original tune by John Jacob Niles [1892-1980] - Setting and tune by Carl Rütti [1996] "Sou-Gân" - Traditional Welsh carol - Edward Elwyn Jones arangement [2003] "While Shepherds Watched" (aka "Sherburne") [1783] - Daniel Read [1757-1836] - Text by Nahum Tate [1652-1715] "Ding Dong! Merrily on High" - Traditional French carol - Mack Wilberg arrangement [2007] - English text by George Ratcliffe Woodward [1848-1934] "Angels We Have Heard on High" ("Gloria") - Traditional French melody "Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes" - English text by Bishop James Chadwick [1813-1882] - Harmonization by Edward Shippen Barnes [1887-1958] "The Shepherd's Carol" by - 2000 arrangement by Bob Chilcott [b.1955] - Text by Clive Sansom [1910-1981] "Still, Still, Still" - Traditional Austrian carol - Norman Luboff [1917-1967] arrangement [1958] - English text by Marilyn [b.1929] and Alan [b.1925] Bergman "The Three Kings" [aka "Three Kings From Persian Lands Afar"] ("Die Könige") [1856] - by Peter Cornelius [1824-1874] - Jonathan Dove [b.1959] arrangement [2000] - Text by Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1936] "Personent Hodie" - from "Piae Cantones" [1582] - Gustav Holst [1874-1934] adaptation [1916] - Descant by John Rutter [b.1945] "All Bells in Paradise" - John Rutter [2012] "Christmas of the Witnesses", Op.1319 [2018] - Carson Cooman [b.1982] - Text by Euan Tait [b.1968] "Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht ") [1818] - Franz Xaver Gruber [1787-1863] - Text by Joseph Mohr [1792-1848] - Descants by Murray Forbes Somerville [b.1948] "Nation shall Not Lift Up a Sword against Nation" - Ralph Vaughan Williams, from "Dona nobis pacem" [1936] - Texts from the Old Testament, Isaiah; Leviticus; Psalms; Psalms 1; Isaiah, Isaiahand 22; and the New Testament: Luke[King James Version] "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" - Text by Charles Wesley [ca.1739] - music by Felix Mendelssohn from "Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest" (the "Gutenberg Cantata") [1840] - William Hayman Cummings [1831-1915] adaptation - Descant by David Wilcocks outro

Organ preludes and postlude: Thomas Sheehan, organ Preludes: "Fantasia di natale su Adeste, fideles” (2015) - Carlotta Ferrari (b. 1975) "Greensleeves [1934] - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) - Arranged by Stanley Roper (1878–1953) "Christmas", Op. 80 [1918] - Arthur Foote (1853–1937) The Dawn of Redeeming Grace [2003] - Judith Bingham (b. 1952) "A Festive Voluntary: Variations on Good King Wenceslas" [1986] - Petr Eben (1929–2007) postlude: Improvisations on "Adeste, fidelis" [2005] - Francis Pott [b.1957]

Harvard University Choir Edward Elwyn Jones, Choirmaster and organ Thomas Sheehan, organ and Associate Choirmaster at The Memorial Church at Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts USA December 09, 2019 2018-12-09 WHRB-FM Harvard University radio live broadcast 109th Annual Christmas Carols Service; traditional and contemporary songs. Organ preludes set and postlude are included.

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