Music

There is an active music program at Emmanuel Church. This year there are twenty-two choristers in the Emmanuel Choir. The choir sings at Sunday services (10:30 a.m.) from early September until Trinity Sunday. Evensong is sung several times each year (6:00 p.m.), and there are other special services and concerts. The choir schedule is noted below:
EMMANUEL CHOIR SCHEDULE: 2007-2008

Sunday 9 September
Proper 18 
Psalm 1 (Elvey)
Ubi caritas (Duruflé)

Sunday 16 September Proper 19 Psalm 51 [1-11] (Stanford) Lord, for Thy tender mercies' sake (Hilton)
Sunday 23 September Proper 20 Psalm 138 (Turle) Sicut cervus (Palestrina)
Friday 28 September, 6:00 pm Evensong: St. Michael & All Angels Eve Evening Service (Stewart, in C) Responses (Smith of Durham) Psalm 103 (Pyle) Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Willan)
Sunday 30 September Proper 21 Psalm 146 (Norris) Almighty and everlasting God (Gibbons)
Sunday 7 October Proper 22 Psalm 37 [3-10] (Howells) O Lord, increase our faith (Loosemore)
Sunday 14 October Proper 23 From the rising of the sun (Ouseley) Psalm 113 (Vann) Sing to the Lord (Tye)
Sunday 21 October Proper 24 Psalm 121 (Davies) Teach me Thy way, O Lord (Fox)
Sunday 28 October Proper 25 Psalm 84 (Parry) Not unto us, O Lord (Walmisley)
Sunday 4 November All Saints Communion Service (Statham, in D) Psalm 149 (Stanford) Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Willan)
Sunday 11 November Proper 27 Psalm 17 [1-8] (Howells) Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)
Sunday 11 November, 5:00 pm Celebration of a New Ministry Psalm 43 (S.S. Wesley) Ubi caritas (Duruflé)
Sunday 18 November Proper 28 Psalm 98 (Booth) Never weather-beaten sail (Wood)
Wednesday 21 November, 6:00 pm Evensong: Thanksgiving Evening Service (Stanford, in D) Responses (Lee) Psalm 65 [9-14] (Davy) O Lord, support us (Hollett)
Sunday 25 November Proper 29 Psalm 46 (Luther) Rejoice, the Lord is King (Archer)
Sunday 2 December Advent 1 Psalm 122 (Woodward) Zion, at thy shining gates (Guest)
Sunday 9 December Advent 2 Psalm 72 [1-8] (Boyce) Deliver us, O Lord our God (Batten)
Sunday 16 December Advent 3 Psalm 146 (Norris) Hark, the glad sound (Davies)
Sunday 23 December Advent 4 Psalm 24 (Marshall) Ave Maria (Stravinsky)
Monday 24 December, 6:00 pm and 11:00 pm Christmas Eve Psalm 96 (Parry) Sussex Carol (arr. Vaughan Williams) There is no rose of such virtue (Thoburn)
Sunday 30 December Christmas 1 Psalm 147 (Garrett) See amid the winter's snow (Goss)
Saturday 5 January 2008, 6:00 pm Evensong: Epiphany Eve We have seen his star (Titcomb) Responses (Lee) Psalm 72 [1-2, 10-17] (Boyce) Evening Service (Vaughan Williams, in C) Saw you never in the twilight (Friedell)
Sunday 6 January 2008 The Epiphany Psalm 72 [1-2, 10-17] (Boyce) Eastern monarchs, sages three (Sumsion)
Sunday 13 January 2008 Epiphany 1 Psalm 89 [20-29] (Goss) When Jesus went to Jordan's stream (Clarke)
Sunday 20 January 2008 Epiphany 2 Psalm 40 [1-10] (Skeats) O for a closer walk (Stanford)
Sunday 27 January 2008 Epiphany 3 Psalm 139 [1-11] (Day) Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (S.S. Wesley)
Sunday 3 February 2008 Last Epiphany Psalm 99 (Norris) O salutaris (Elgar)
Wednesday 6 February 2008, 6:00 pm Ash Wednesday Psalm 103 [8-14] (Plainsong, Tone VIII.3) The Lamentation (Bairstow)
Sunday 10 February 2008 Lent 1 A prayer of King Henry VI (Ley) Psalm 51 [1-13] (Stanford) Adam lay ybounden (Ord) View me, Lord (Lloyd)
Sunday 17 February 2008 Lent 2 Psalm 33 [12-22] (Randall) God so loved the world (Goss)
Sunday 24 February 2008 Lent 3 Psalm 95 (Noble) Very bread, good shepherd tend us (Willan)
Sunday 2 March 2008 Lent 4 Psalm 23 (Bairstow) My shepherd will supply my need (arr. Thomson)
Sunday 9 March 2008 Lent 5 Psalm 130 (Purcell) Bread of the world (Thoburn)
Sunday 16 March 2008 Palm Sunday Hosianna dem Sohne Davids (Gesius) Psalm 22 [1-11] (Howells) Ecce quomodo moritur justus (Handl)
Friday 21 March 2008, 6:00 pm Good Friday Psalm 22 [1-11](Howells) To mock your reign (Tallis) O savior of the world (Goss)
Sunday 23 March 2008 Easter This is the day (Anon., c. 1600) Communion Service (Statham, in D) Psalm 118 [14-29] (Thalben-Ball) Christ the Lord is risen again (Foster) Love's redeeming work is done (Archer)
Sunday 30 March 2008 Easter 2 Psalm 111 (Massey) We walk by faith (Kosche)
Sunday 6 April 2008 Easter 3 Psalm 116 (Burrows-Watson) O sacred feast (Willan)
Sunday 13 April 2008 Easter 4 Jubilate Deo (HRH Albert) Psalm 23 (Goss) O sacrum convivium (d'Evry)
Sunday 20 April 2008 Easter 5 Psalm 66 [1-8 or 1-11] (Stanford) Come my way, my truth, my life (Harker)
Sunday 27 April 2008 Easter 6 Benedicite, omnia opera (M. Shaw) Psalm 148 [7-14] (Walmisley) God be in my head (Chapman)
Thursday 1 May 2008, 6:00 pm Evensong: Ascension Let all the world (Harwood) Responses (Smith of Durham) Hail gladdening Light (Stainer) Psalm 47 (Davy) Evening Service (G. Shaw, in D)
Sunday 4 April 2008 Easter 7 Psalm 47 (Davy) Praise (Dyson)
Sunday 11 May 2008 Whitsunday Psalm 104 [25-37] (Bairstow) O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (Tallis)
Sunday 18 May 2008 Trinity Sunday Psalm 150 (Talbot) Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky)

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