Wednesday 20th December 2000 at 7.30 p.m.

ANNUAL CAROL SERVICE
CELEBRATING
ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS

Sung by the Reading Minster Mid-Week Choir

Director: Seymour Norman
Organist: Michael Thomas

Hymn 12 - On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry

Magnificat in F - George Dyson
A virgin most pure - Charles Wood

Hymn 3 - Come, thou long-expected Jesus

So gentle the donkey - John Barnard
Cantate Domino - Giuseppe Pitoni
A spotless rose - Herbert Howells

Hymn 6 - Hark the glad sound! the Saviour comes

Jesus Christ the apple tree - Elizabeth Poston
A maiden most gentle - arr. Andrew Carter

Organ Interlude

Hymn 5 - Hark! a herald voice is calling

A boy was born in Bethlehem - Benjamin Britten
Mary's Child - Paul Bryan

Hymn 32 - O little town of Bethlehem

Myn liking - Richard Terry
Angel's carol - John Rutter

Hymn 29 - It came upon the midnight clear

O magnum mysterium - William Byrd

Solo: The little road to Bethlehem - Michael Head

Hymn 22 - Away in a manger

Solo: Shepherd's cradle song - Arthur Somervell

Silent night - arr. David Sidwell

(Hymns are from The New English Hymnal)

The Choir will also sing Carols in the Minster from 12.15 to 12.45 p.m. on Friday 22nd December.