December 24-25, 2013

 Unknown Catalan Master, Nativity, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1200-50


And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn (NRSV, Luke 2:7).


Christmas Eve 

4:00 pm Family Eucharist with Nativity Pageant




Salvador Dali, Jesu Nativitas, Biblia Sacra, 1964-67

Midnight Mass

11:00 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers



Prelude: What child is this? [Kripfgans: YouTube]Richard Purvis (1913-94)

Mass Setting:  Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)
 
Introit: All my heart this night rejoices [text/Rutter: listen], Johann Ebeling(1620[37]- 1666[76])

Motets: O magnum mysterium [text], Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)

Sans Day Carol [Polyphony: text/YouTube], Cornish Carol

Postlude: From heaven high to earth I come [Lucas: YouTube], Garth Edmundson (1900-71)




William Blake, The Annunciation to the Shepherds, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 1809

Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified [NRSV, Luke 2:9].

Feast of the Nativity of the Lord

10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Noël en récit et en taille sur la tierce du positif [BardonmusicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)

Mass Setting:  Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)

Introit:  I saw three ships [text/Stairwell: YouTube], arr. Ian Humphris

Motet: Jesus, Jesus rest your head [text] [YouTube], Appalachian carol, arr. Arthur Warrell (1900-70)

Postlude: Noël suisse [Tompkins: listen], Louis-Claude Daquin