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105th Carols Service, December 14, 2014 performance, excerpts: with Thomas Sheehan, organ radio intro O Radiant Dawn (James MacMillan, b.1959) Alma Redemptoris Mater (Giovanni Palestrina, 1525-1594; text by Hermann Contractus, 1013-1054)) Love Came Down at Christmas (Leo Sowerby, 1895-1968; text by Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894) Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (German Catholic hymn ca.1599, harmonized in 1609 by Michael Praetorius) Behold a Lovely Vine (Jeremiah Ingalls, 1764-1828; text from "Divine Hymns", edited by Joshua Smith, 1800) What Sweeter Music (John Rutter, b.1945; text by Robert Herrick, 1591-1674) Gloria, in excelsis Deo (from the Christmas Cantata, Daniel Pinkham, 1923-2006; traditional text from the Latin Mass and Psalm 1-3) Ding Dong Merrily on High (traditional English carol, arranged by Charles Wood, 1866-1926; text by George R. Woodward, 1848-1934)) Angels We Have Heard on High (traditional French carol, harmonized by Edward Shippen Barnes, 1887-1958) I Wonder as I Wander (Carl Rutti, b.1949; text attributed to John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980) A Soldier's Carol [world premiere, Harvard University Choir commission 2014] (Ronald Perera, Harvard class of 1963; text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882) Wise Men Came Journeying [world premiere, Harvard University Choir commission 2014] (Carson P. Cooman, Harvard Class of 2004; text by Shirley Erena Murray, b.1931) Lux aurumque (Eric Whitacre, b.1970, Latin translation by Charles Anthony Silvestri, b.1965) Suo-gân (traditional Welsh carol, arranged by Edward Elwyn Jones, b.1977) Look-a That Star (Jay Althouse, b.1951) Postlude, organ outro: Improvisation on "Adeste Fidelis" (Francis Pott, b.1957); Thomas Sheehan, organ radio outro

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