MUSIC BOX
Second Sunday of Advent
Karen Neal, soprano
Melinda Coffey Armstead, piano
Prelude to Worship
Good Christians All, Rejoice . . . Latin carol/German melody, arr. for piano solo by Bruce Greer
The Holly and the Ivy . . . traditional 19th C. British carol, arr. by Bruce Greer
Musical Interlude
Of the Father’s Love Begotten . . . Divinum Mysterium, Plainsong, Mode V
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413), translation by John Mason Neale, 1854
Postlude
Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle. . . traditional 17th C. French carol
arr. for piano solo by Randall Hartsell
Earth, strike up your music,
Birds that sing and bells that ring;
Heaven hath answering music
For all Angels soon to sing:
Earth, put on your whitest
Bridal robe of spotless snow:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.
– Christina Rossetti
