Advent Carols in the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge 29th Nov 2020 [L]

[DracoM]

A Service for Advent with Carols 29th Nov 2020 [L]
The Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge

Order of Service:

Introit: O pastor animarum (Hildegard von Bingen)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: The seven joys of Mary (Whitehead)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonaï
First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv.1-5
Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)
Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv.1-11
Motet: Laetentur coeli (Mathias)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
Anthem: Drop down, ye heavens, from above (Weir)
Third lesson: Micah 4 vv.1-4
Carol: The Cherry Tree Carol (arr. Cleobury)
Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv.14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Robinson)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
Carol: A Prayer to St John the Baptist (McDowall)
Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv.1-7
Anthem: This is the record of John (Gibbons)
Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv.1-11
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New) (descant: Robinson)

IV The God –Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Carol: O virgo virginum (H. L’Estrange)
Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-49
Carol: There is no rose (Pott)
Magnificat: Service in E (Murrill)
Eighth lesson: John 3 vv.1-8

Sentence and The Christmas Collect
Carol: A Gallery Carol (Gardner)
Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Robinson)

The College Prayer and The Blessing

Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ BWV 661 (Bach)

James Anderson-Besant (Assistant Organist)
George Herbert (Herbert Howells Organ Scholar)
Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pvbl

[Petrushka]

Thank goodness there's some normality to hold on to!

[Nick Armstrong]

Thanks, Draco... I was wondering about this earlier this evening

[Bella Kemp]

Wonderful. The world is finding its balance again.

[Vile Consort]

Thank goodness there's some normality to hold on to!

Apparently being held without a congregation, so not entirely normal.

[DracoM]

But for radio listeners.......? About the same?
.............and without congregation in a chapel - legendarily without much acoustic - maybe interestingly different for us on R3?

[ardcarp]

Mrs A and I got tickets for last year's St John's Epiphany Carols. It was packed, but the choir coped brilliantly with the slightly reduced reverb in the chapel. A great experience.

Correction: It was this year's Epiphany service!

[Alison]

We like (L)

[Andrew Butler]

Well I CERTAINLY won’t be listening. Even if there were to be a congregation they wouldn’t be allowed to sing. Why the hell bother? This is gratuitous music - not worship!

[Andrew Butler]

Apparently being held without a congregation, so not entirely normal.

Indeed. How can it be a “service” ? I shall not be listening

[Nick Armstrong]

Well I CERTAINLY won’t be listening. Even if there were to be a congregation they wouldn’t be allowed to sing. Why the hell bother? This is gratuitous music - not worship!

Indeed. How can it be a “service” ? I shall not be listening

Surely radio permits a congregation? Yes, some may listen ‘gratuitously’ to the music - but so might attendees physically in the Chapel...

[Andrew Butler]

Surely radio permits a congregation? Yes, some may listen ‘gratuitously’ to the music - but so might attendees physically in the Chapel...

Fair points - but it won’t be the same - and I like “same”

[Miles Coverdale]

By your rather curious rationale, Evensong, which does not normally have much congregational singing, doesn't count as ‘worship’, and ‘services’ held behind closed doors in, for example, a convent or monastery don't qualify as such either.

[Petrushka]

The radio audience is the congregation and I shall be singing along even more lustily than ever to Helmsley surely one of the finest hymn tunes ever penned and a shame it gets an airing just once a year.

[Jack Pudding]

Indeed. How can it be a “service” ? I shall not be listening

I am sure that the members of the choir, its director and the wider college community will be extremely disappointed to read this...