A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: hymns, carols, readings for Christmas

With Janet Yieh, conductor; Raymond Nagem, organ; and the St. Paul’s Chapel Christmas Choir.

PROGRAM
Processional Hymn: Once in Royal David’s City
Welcome, Bidding Prayer, Lord’s Prayer
Invitatory Carol: Candlelight Carol — John Rutter (b. 1945)
First Lesson
Carol: Adam Lay Ybounden — Boris Ord (1897–1961)
Carol: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree — Elizabeth Poston (1905–87) Second Lesson
Carol: The Holly and the Ivy — Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941) Third Lesson
Carol: Personent Hodie — Gustav Holst (1871–1934)
Fourth Lesson
Hymn: What Child Is This
Carol: Niño Lindo — Alejandro Rivas (b. 1967)
Fifth Lesson
Carol: The Angel Gabriel — Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)
Sixth Lesson
Hymn: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Hymn: Silent Night
Seventh Lesson
Carol: Rise Up Shepherd and Follow — traditional spiritual
Hymn: Angels We Have Heard on High
Eighth Lesson
Coventry Carol — B.E. (Brittney Elizabeth) Boykin (b. 1989)
Ninth Lesson
Hymn: O Come All Ye Faithful
Collect for Advent, Blessing
Closing Hymn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Live from St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University.

Image: The Altar of the Three Kings (1507), on linden wood, by Hans Baldung Grien  (1484–1545). Now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.