Chancel Choir

The Chancel Choir is open to anyone high school age through adult.  The ensemble rehearses on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. in the Choir Suite on the second floor of the Sims building and/or in the sanctuary.

The role of the Chancel Choir is to encourage and assist the assembly.  These roles include reinforcement of assembly song, enhancement of assembly song, alternation with the assembly, and proclamation by singing on behalf of the assembly.  

The Chancel Choir sings a wide range of music from Chant - Spirituals; music from the Renaissance to 21st Century; music both accompanied and unaccompanied.  

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Music List for the 2023 Season:

September 24: “Whoever Would Be Great among You”          Ronald A. Nelson
          (Augsburg Choirbook)                                                                            (text based on Matthew 20:26-28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iemr5ufbH0Y

Oct 1, 2023:   Lord, for Thy tender mercy’s sake              Richard Farrant (c.1525 – 1580)
http://aoedeconsort.org/scores.html
http://aoedeconsort.org/audio/Farrant.mp3

Oct 8, 2023:”O Bread of Life from Heaven”              David Ashley White 
File 69: 2 part (women and men)

Oct 15, 2023: “Rejoice in the Lord Always”   Henry Purcell
SATB in our choir library. Might search other editions.
Full recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkh6WMcV_ic

FYI: OCTOBER 20-21 will be our Oktoberfest weekend. If we have church inside…
Oct 22, 2023: Handbells will play “Songs of Praise”     arra. Susan E. Geschke
Cantor can lead Psalm 96: 1-9    Linda Cable Shute (pages 50-53 use refrain 2 Psalm Setting for the Church Year)

Oct 29, 2023(Reformation): “I Build on God’s Strong Word”    Johann Walther
Chantry Choirbook pg. 164
During communion: Communion hymn medley for soloist(s) and handbells arr. William H. Mathias
(Year A Handbell CD ROM)

November 5th (All Saints Sunday): “Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones”   Robert A. Hobby
NEED Handbells (Six ringers: Anjay, Carrie, Susan, Chris, Shawn or Catherine, Maggie) and 2 trumpets! In choir library#116

Nov 12, 2023: “Come, Ye Sinners”        BEACH SPRING, arr. Ruth Elaine Schram
(ONLY THE MEN2 part) Augsburg Choirbook for Men, pg. 14 File Cabinet drawer 3 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvnjujgYVF8


November 19th: E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come”    Paul Manz
In choir library. Can only do this if we have a very high soprano 1 with a high B-flat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRei4RUONUc
Soprano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53uLsk_-9I
Alto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P4qtqeZRN0
Tenor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4_Z-DRFHW4
Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2oYc66QQo

November 26th (Sunday after Thanksgiving) Christ the King Sunday:
Hymn of Praise today will be “Joyful, Joyful” with bells on a stanza of the hymn.
Handbells: Thanksgiving Bells Medley arr. Barbara B. Kinyon. Only need 18 bells, so 9 people. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6OUS_B0cg

December 3: ADVENT 1: “Keep your Lamps”                  Spiritual, arr. Andre Thomas
(Need 3 percussionists: low, medium and high congas). In choir library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3uo2aIpos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seki7kMpeZY

December 10: Tenor recit: “Comfort Ye My People”        G. F. Handel
                            Chorus: “And The Glory of the Lord”  MESSIAH, pg. 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRq9EkDTdxs
Soprano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkCWJzbrpi0
Alto:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OB6JeFfq7E
Tenor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-djvRC22IvQ
Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYh3jqZthk4

December 17: “Advent Supplication”                     CONDITOR ALME, arr. Hal H. Hopson
Choir library Box 297
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvrxBlJZUk

December 24: (Morning: Bells) “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”      Es Ist Ein Ros’, arr. Sandra Eithun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpKYg1ktAI4

December 24 evening (Christmas Eve?) ‘Twas In The Moon of Wintertime”   arr.  Richard Erickson
File Cabinet 226. We need a harpist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2XaVrKTsI

December 31: (Choir off)

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