Christmas Carols

 
Choral: Away in a Manger

This is a choral arrangement I did for our church a while back. We performed it again this year in our Christmas program, and Jenna recorded this video. Like most live recordings it has a bit of background noise, but I suppose of all the pieces I’ve written, this one goes best with various interjections from [...]

 
The Savior's Carol (George MacDonald)

Here's a brand-new choral piece I just wrote. It had its premiere on December 16, 2010, at my church's Christmas concert. The text is a Christmas poem by George MacDonald. He gave it the title "A Christmas Carol," which is descriptive enough but rather too much like every other Christmas song ever composed, so I [...]

 
Joy to the World (Psalm 98)

“The Messiah’s Coming and Kingdom” Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Psalm 98:4-8 One of our best-loved Christmas carols isn’t really about Christmas.(Technically, it isn’t even a carol.) It’s one of a set of paraphrases of the book of psalms, converted into hymn form by the 17th-century “Father of English Hymnody,” Isaac Watts: Joy to the world, the [...]

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