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Candlelight Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
An amazing start to the Advent season – arrive early to get a good seat! In the tradition of King’s College, Cambridge, prepare your soul for the Christmas miracle with carols for choir and organ. This event is a long-standing tradition at St. John’s – a “must” to center your soul during the Advent season. Sunday, December 9 at 3:00pm.
The St. John’s Adult and Youth Choirs; Scott Lamlein, choirmaster; Floyd Higgins, organist
This concert is free admission, with donations received, no tickets required. A reception follows in the church hall.
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Featuring the following choral music:
MacMillan: O radiant dawn
Vaughan Williams: The truth from above
Steel: People, look east
Victoria: O magnum mysterium
Howells: A spotless rose
Duruflé: Tota pulchra es Maria
Luboff arr.: Still, still, still
Spiritual: Rise up, shepherd, and follow
Paulus arr.: The first nowell
Whitacre: Lux aurumque
Hymns:
Once in royal David’s city
Angels we have heard on high
O come, all ye faithful
Check out previous year’s Lessons and Carols: 2017 2016 2015 2014