Choir Music Past: 2024 and 2025



2025:
 

January 5th 2025: Twas in the Moon of Wintertime - French Canadian melody
January 12th:  Go Tell it on the Mountain - arr. Patsy Ford Simms 
January 19th: We Shall Overcome (MLK Day)
January 26th: New Born Again - Spiritual arr Roland M. Carter (pg 362) 

Sunday February 2nd:  NO CHOIR - Special Music 
Sunday February 9th:  Bambelela - Traditional African Song 
Sunday February 16:  Love Is - Abbie Betinis
Sunday February 23:  His Eye is on the Sparrow - Martin and Gabriel - Arr by Roger Emerson 

March 2nd: NO CHOIR - Special Music 
March 9th: (Lent Begins):  Come and Go with Me - Colored Sacred Harp - Samuel W. Jackson
March 16th:  I Choose Love - Mark Miller  (For Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church)
March 23rd:  Stand By Me - Charles Albert Tindley (Chalice Hymnal 629) 
March 30th:  Seek Ye First - Karen Lafferty

April 6th:  NO CHOIR - Special Music 
April 13th: (Palm Sunday) Pie Jesu - Mary Lightfoot
April 20th: (EASTER!) Siyahamba/Oh, Freedom South African
April 27th: Bread of Life - Jo Boyce and Mike Stanley

May 4th: No Choir - Ave Maria Bach/Gounod
May 11th: "Holy Spirit, Living Breath of God" Keith Getty & Stuart Townend arr. Lloyd Larson
May 18th: "Love Lifted Me" Greg Gilpin 
May 25: "Ubi Caritas"  Bob Hurd

June 1: "Love the Lord Your God" Graeme Stewart
June 8: NO CHOIR (but yes, Thursday rehearsal) 
June 15: Choir "Magnificat, Holy is Your Name" Arranged by Tony Alonso
June 22: Choir "We Are Many Parts" Marty Haugen 
               Solo  Florence Price's "Sympathy"
June 29: Choir "May the Road Rise to Meet You" Lori True 

Choir Summer Break!

July 6: "Is There Anybody Here that Loves My Jesus" arrangement by Undine Smith Moore
            "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" Irving Berlin
July 13: Flute solo
July 20: "Laudate Dominum" Mozart
July 27: "In the Garden" C. Austin Miles
                "You'll Never Walk Alone" Rodgers and Hammerstein
August 3: "Give Me Jesus," arr. By M. Hayes



2024:

January 7 - Special music
January 14 -“Love Is” by Abbie Betinis 
January 21 - "World Peace Prayer" by Marty Haugen
January 28 - "Bambalela," a traditional South African song

February 4 - Special music
February 11 - "Comment ne te pas Louer” (How could I forget to praise you?) by Père A. Bollevis Saniko
February 18 - "What the World Needs Now is Love" by Burt Bacharach 
February 25 -  "The Gift of Love" by Hal Hopson

March 3 - Special music
March 10 -  "Tree of Life" by Aaron Thompson
March 17 -  "Do This in Remembrance of Me" by  Larry Visser 
March 24 - "Veni Jesu Amor Mi" by Luigi Cherubini
March 31 - "Haleluya, Pelotsa Rona" South African Sotho hymn

April 6th - Special music
April 13th - "Lord of the Dance" by Sydney Carter, arranged by Allen Poe
April 20th - "The Servant Song" by Richard Gilliard, arranged bt Francis Patrick O'Brian
April 27th - "To You , O God, I Lift Up My Soul" by Bob Hurd

May 5th - Special music
May 12th -  "Down to the River to Pray"  American Folk Hymn
May 19th - "O Healing River" by Fred Hellerman
May 26th - "Peace like a River" - African-American spiritual

June 2nd - "I'll Fly Away" by Albert E Brumley
June 9th -  NO CHOIR! GO TO CAMP! 
June 16th - "My Shepherd will Supply My Need" American Folk Melody - Southern Harmony, 1835 
June 23 - "Wey Yu Wok Fo God" Krio Hymn - Sierre Leone
 June 30 - "Amani Utupe Na Ustawi" Patsy Ford Simms 

JULY AUGUST Summer Break :)

Sunday, September 1 - Choir Off - Still summer ;)
Sunday, September 8 - Choir Off - Still summer (in my heart) 
Sunday, September 15 - "Brighten My Soul with Sunshine" by  Joyce Eilers
Sunday, September 22 - "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach Arranged by Geoffrey Edwards
Sunday, September 29 - "Pie Jesu" by Mary Lynn Lightfoot

Sunday October 6 - Special music
Sunday October 13th: Come Follow Me Forever - Michael Haydn
Sunday October 20th: Yonder Come Day - traditional Georgia Sea Islands Spiritual
Sunday October 27th: Near the Cross/Sanjola

Sunday November 3rd (Catholic All Souls and All Saints Weekend): Soon and Very Soon 
Sunday November 10th: NO CHOIR!!!! 
Sunday November 17th: All Good Gifts - Stephen Schwartz 
Sunday November 24th: Simple Gifts - Arranged by Carl Strommen

Sunday December 1st (First week of Advent): NO CHOIR - He Shall Feed His Flock - Handel
Sunday December 8th (Second week of Advent): While We are Waiting, Come - arr. Don Cason 
                                                                                   (pg 190 African American Heritage Hymnal)
Sunday December 15th (Third week of Advent): NO CHOIR - Visiting another church! 
Sunday December 22nd (Fourth week of Advent): Bright Morning Stars are Rising - Traditional                                                                                             - collected by Ruth Crawford Seeger South Carolina
Tuesday December 24th (Christmas Eve): Rise Up Shepherd and Follow - Spiritual arr. Joseph Joubert
Sunday December 29th: NO CHOIR In the Bleak Midwinter

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