John LINKER

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5:00pm A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

17 December 2006

St Cecilia Girls' Choir
St Nicholas Boys' Choir
Canterbury Choir
The Parish Choir

A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols 2006 Order of Service

Hymn 102 (Irby) [Andrew Burton & Colton Ryan, soli] [Linker playing]

The Bidding Prayer, Lord's Prayer, and Grace (Fr Sessum)

Woodward: Up! good Christen folk, and listen

First Lesson (Anna Stahlman, Deputy Head Chorister, Girls' Choir)

Webster: Adam lay ybounden

Second Lesson (Marian Willard, Administrative Assistant, Good Shepherd Day School)

Anon: There is no rose of such virtue (Debbie Jackson, Reba Roberts, Whit Whitaker)

Hymn 72 (Richmond)

Third Lesson (Gary Anderson, Prof of Music & Dir of Choral Ensembles, Transylvania University; Cond. & Mus Dir., Lexington Chamber Choir)

Rutter: Sans Day Carol

Fourth Lesson (George Zack, Music Director & Conductor, The Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra)

Barton: Bring me joy!

Fifth Lesson (Teresa Isaac, Mayor of Lexington)

Whitburn: Righteous Joseph

Hymn 278 (Rustington) [Ullery playing]

Sixth Lesson (John Linker, Organist/Choirmaster)

Rutter: I wonder as I wander

Seventh Lesson (The Rev'd Mrs. Lauren Hendrick, Deacon, and Minister of Christian Formation)

Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Soli: Margaret Leer & Lindsey Sawyer)

Hymn 94 (Winchester Old) [Ullery playing]

Eighth Lesson (The Rev'd Robert L. Sessum, Rector)

Gabrieli: Hodie Christus natus est (Symphoniae Sacrae, 1597)

Ninth Lesson (The Right Rev'd Stacy F. Sauls, Bishop of Lexington)

Welcome from the Rector and Hymn 82 (Divinum mysterium) [Linker playing]

The Collect for Christmas Eve (Bishop Sauls)

The Blessing (Bishop Sauls)

Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium

Hymn 109 in procession (Nowell) [Linker playing]

Widor: Symphonie Gothique (IV. Allegro) [Linker playing]