[rodgersorgan] Christmas music


Hi, gang --- it's pretty deep into the season to be recommending
Christmas music, but things have been busy around here (imagine that - a
musician busy at this time of year!).

Here are a couple of numbers that you and your choir will enjoy NEXT
year:

Jesu, Came Upon the Midnight Clear (PraiseGathering # A08212).  This is
a setting of "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" with a nice adaptation of
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" as the accompaniment.  A fun piece to
register.  I'm doing one movement with Choir celestes and flutes at 8'
plus PR300 strings at 4' undergirded by PR300 strings at 16' in the
Pedal.  The description sounds strange, but those synth strings really
sing when you pitch them up an octave.

Carol of the Kings (PraiseGathering # A08240).  Another marriage of the
familiar and the unexpected.  This one adapts Leontovich's "Carol of the
Bells" as the musical theme, with "We Three Kings" for the familiar text
PLUS a new set of words that fit Leontovich's rhythm and grow on the
choir and congregation ("Kings from afar, follow the star, throughout
the night, led by the Light.....  On this glad morn, Jesus is born, Joy
to the earth, welcome His birth.... ").  Fun to play and fun to sing.

Just to keep one foot firmly anchored to tradition, we've pulled out
Hopson's Antiphonal Carol.  And the congregation is wild about the
MIDI/organ arrangements from An Angelic Christmas.

A Blessed Christmas to all -
B.E.


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May all your bloopers be grace notes this hoiliday season! From the Staff at FMP

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