Music for Christmas 2017

December 24 + The Eve of the Nativity + Family Service at 4 PM

Vocal Music – Kristen Herztenberg Satterwhite, soloist

• Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod
• O Holy Night – Adolphe Adam

Instrumental Music

• Noel X - Grand Jeu Et Duo* - Louis-Claude Daquin
• Glory to the Newborn King, Music for Bells and Organ – arr. Anna Laura Page
• Fughetta on “Antioch” – Richard Shephard

Congregational Music (all hymns from the Hymnal 1982.)

• Hymn 83 - O Come, all ye faithful (ADESTE FIDELIS)
• Hymn 96 - Angels we have heard on high (GLORIA)
• Hymn 99 - Go, tell it on the mountain (GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN)
• Hymn 115 - What child is this (GREENSLEEVES)
• Hymn 101 - Away in a manger (TUNE)
• Hymn 111 - Silent Night (STILLE NACHT)

December 24 + The Eve of the Nativity + Choral Eucharist 6:30 and 10 PM

Vocal Music

• The Holly and the Ivy - Richard Shephard
• Mass for the Nativity - Richard Shephard
• The Great God of Heaven- Richard Shephard
• I Wonder As I Wander - Richard Shephard
• Ave Maria – Luigi Cherubini, Allison Gosney, soprano

Instrumental Music

• Noel X - Grand Jeu Et Duo* - Louis-Claude Daquin
• Fughetta on “Antioch” – Richard Shephard

Congregational Music (all hymns from the Hymnal 1982.)

Hymn 83 - O Come, all ye faithful (ADESTE FIDELIS)
Hymn 87 - Hark! the herald angels sing (MENDELSSOHN)
Hymn 115 - What child is this (GREENSLEEVES)
Hymn 89 - It came upon a midnight clear (CAROL)
Hymn 100 - Joy to the world, the Lord is come (ANTIOCH)
Psalm 96 :1-4, 6-9  Cantate Domino  

December 25th + Christmas Day + Eucharist 10:00 AM

Instrumental Music

• In the Bleak Midwinter – Allen Orton Gibbs
• The First Noel – Jim Brickman
• Star Carol/Some Children See Him – Alfred Burt, arr. Mark Hayes
• Fughetta on “Antioch” – Richard Shephard

Congregational Music (all hymns from the Hymnal 1982.)

• Hymn 102 - Once in royal David’s city (IRBY)
• Hymn 96 - Angels we have heard on high (GLORIA)
• Hymn 87 - Hark! the herald angels sing (MENDELSSOHN)
• Hymn 100 - Joy to the world  (ANTIOCH)

Kristen Hertzenberg Satterwhite
soloist for 4 PM service

Soloist for the 4 PM service will be Kristen Hertzenberg Satterwhite, Kingwood native and daughter-in-law of our beloved Satterwhites. Best known for her role as Christine in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom of the Opera, Kristen Hertzenberg has proven her ability to sing anything in her concerts, performing music ranging from opera to Broadway to blues. In 2014, Nevada Public Radio-affiliated Desert Companion magazine named her Best Torch Singer in Las Vegas, describing her voice as "a dynamic instrument that goes from gritty blues to angelic peal at the drop of a Julie London record sleeve."

Raised in the Houston area, Hertzenberg studied at UT Austin and earned a master's degree in opera at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She also studied at the Austrian American Mozart Academy in Salzburg, Austria and was a first place winner in the National Opera Association competition. After touring Europe in the musical Hair, she moved to Las Vegas for Phantom where she spent five years in her dream role. She has also played Sophie in Terrence McNally's Master Class, Heidi in [title of show], and most recently starred as Dyanne in the Las Vegas production of the Tony award winning musical Million Dollar Quartet. Read more about her at her website, www.kristenhertzenberg.com.

Richard Shephard

Composer for most of the Choral music at the late services is Englishman Richard Shephard. Shephard (b. 1949) was educated at The King’s School, Gloucester and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is Chamberlain of Yorkminster, head of their development department, and Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Music Department of the University of York. His compositions include operas, oratorios and orchestral works but it is perhaps for his church music that he is best known. His anthems and service settings are sung widely in the cathedrals and churches of the UK and they have a considerable following in the USA. He holds the Lambeth Doctorate of Music from Oxford University and two Honorary Doctorates from the University of the South (Sewanee, TN) and the University of York (York, UK).

The service music (Gloria, Sanctus, and Fraction anthem) are taken from his Mass for the Nativity. Sung in Latin, it has been used at Christmas Eve Midnight Mass in York Minster, St. Thomas Church in New York City, and broadcast on BBC 4. This is a liturgical choral mass based on traditional carols (Bohemian, French, Basque, Spanish, German, English and Italian) for Choir and Organ.

The closing voluntary is his Fughetta on "Antioch" (Joy to the World). What the heck is a fughetta, you might be asking? I looked it up. Fughetta: a short fugue that has the same characteristics as a fugue. Often the contrapuntal writing is not strict, and the setting less formal. So there you have it! This is a mini-fugue for organ on "Joy to the World," though the very beginning sounds more like the German carol, While By My Sheep (How Great Our Joy!). Once the pedal comes in, though, there is no mistaking the familiar hymn.

* Bon Joseph, écoutez-moi (Good Joseph, Listen to Me)