Music Notes – Wednesday, December 24th:
Christmas Eve will be a wonderful service this year, with plenty of special music from our UUCC musicians and guests. Music will begin at 6:00 on Christmas Eve ahead of the 6:30 worship service. Here are the musicians and songs that will be featured before the service:
Sing We Now of Christmas (arr. Wolaver)
Rev. Randy Partain, piano
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Spiritual, arr. Hayes)
Karin Tooley, piano
Allegro Molto from Piano Concerto #3 in D Major (Kabalevsky)
Nick McNally, piano and William McNally, organ
Star Vicino (anonymous)
Phoebe Glesius, soprano with Mike Carney, piano
I’ll Be Home for Christmas (Kent & Gannon)
Anya Ustin, mezzo-soprano, with Mike Carney, piano and Aaron Burkle, drums
Love to Keep Me Warm (Shapiro)
Abs and Astrid Burkle, vocals, with Alicia Burkle, piano, and Aaron Burkle, drums
Sleigh Ride (Anderson, arr. Gentile)
Daria Rabotkina & William McNally, piano duet
Our Christmas Eve service will also feature many favorite seasonal hymns and carols, including It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, The First Nowell, We Three Kings, Joy to the World, and of course, Silent Night.
We’ll also have special music during the service, which will include:
Our Chancel Choir will sing “Would You Like to Hold the Baby?” and “Room in the Stable”, both of which come from a larger Christmas Eve program called Would You Like to Hold the Baby. The program and original songs were created by Canadian UU musician and composer Joyce Poley (b. 1941), who you may know as the songwriter behind favorite UU hymns such as “One More Step” and “When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place”.
Our Treble Ensemble will reprise the lovely Spanish cradle hymn “A la nanita nana” which they sang two Sundays ago as part of Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies of the Southwest.
And last but not least, four of UUCC’s own will collaborate to bring us a lovely arrangement of Adolphe Adam’s “O Holy Night”. The vocal parts will be provided by Amy Collins and Lucy Carney, and they will be accompanied by UUCC Pianist Karin Tooley and by Sharon Marrell on flute. Don’t miss this and all the other special musical treats on hand this Christmas Eve, starting at 6 pm!
-Mike Carney, UUCC Music Director