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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26575
    #1

    Advent Service from St John's: 2 December, 4pm

    Looking forward to this - it's the cue to start on the Christmas cards, get the foreign ones all written, at least, for early sending... Shall make sure to be in and get scribbling after 'Veni Emmanuel'... What a great tune that is (and the Ord 'Adam' to follow ). Not so sure about the rest...

    A service for Advent with Carols

    A service for Advent recorded in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge.


    The Advent Prose

    Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: David Hill)

    Bidding Prayer

    Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)


    I THE MESSAGE OF ADVENT

    Sentence and Collect

    Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonai

    First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv.1-5

    Carol: There is a flower (John Rutter)

    Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv.1-11

    Anthem: Vigilate (New commission) (James Long)


    II THE WORD OF GOD

    Sentence and Collect

    Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David

    Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (David Willcocks)

    Third lesson: Micah 4 vv.1-4

    Motet: O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf (Brahms)

    Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv.14-21

    Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Christopher Robinson)


    III THE PROPHETIC CALL

    Sentence and Collect

    Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium

    Carol: Alleluya, a new work is come on hand (Wishart)

    Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv.1-7

    Motet: Fuit homo missus a Deo (Palestrina)

    Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv.1-11

    Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New) (descant: Christopher Robinson)


    IV THE CHRIST-BEARER

    Sentence and Collect

    Antiphon: O Emmanuel

    Carol: A Spotless Rose (Philip Ledger)

    Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-49

    Anthem: Bŏgŏroditse Dyevo (Rachmaninoff)

    Magnificat: St John's Service (Matthew Martin)

    Eighth lesson: John 3 vv.1-8

    Sentence and Christmas Collect

    Carol: The seven joys of Mary (William Whitehead)

    Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Christopher Robinson)

    College Prayer and Blessing

    Organ Voluntary: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (J.S. Bach)


    Director of Music: Andrew Nethsingha
    Senior Organ Scholar: Freddie James.
    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 25-11-12, 00:16. Reason: Legibility
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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  • ardcarp
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11102
    #2
    Love the Wishart...a great piece. Glad they're doing the Ledger...a fine tribute. And yes Veni Emmanuel is wonderful. Have you heard it on the St Paul's Advent CD (John Scott) arranged by Andrew Carter? It's tremendous.

    Hyperion CDA66994

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    • Petrushka
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12332
      #3
      Recorded eh? I'd always thought this was broadcast live on Advent Sunday, but apparently the Service is being recorded tomorrow night http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/advent-carol-service-2012. Advent Sunday is December 2, the day of the broadcast.
      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26575
        #4
        Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
        Recorded eh? I'd always thought this was broadcast live on Advent Sunday, but apparently the Service is being recorded tomorrow night http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/advent-carol-service-2012. Advent Sunday is December 2, the day of the broadcast.
        I had to look that up... The last few have been in late November, I think.
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Petrushka
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12332
          #5
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          I had to look that up... The last few have been in late November, I think.
          Yes they have, I feel sure, been broadcast live on Advent Sunday and I thought that this was tomorrow until I also looked it up.
          "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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          • Alison
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6474
            #6
            That's put me on something of a downer. A service recorded eight days before Advent Sunday
            is simply not within the tradition of this particular occasion.

            Caliban: Do I suspect you don't how to calculate the date of Advent Sunday ??

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26575
              #7
              Originally posted by Alison View Post
              That's put me on something of a downer. A service recorded eight days before Advent Sunday
              is simply not within the tradition of this particular occasion.

              Caliban: Do I suspect you don't how to calculate the date of Advent Sunday ??

              I suspect you do suspect that! It would have been a well-founded suspicion until a couple of hours ago, when I learnt that it's the nearest Sunday to St Andrew's Day, 30th November... Is that right?
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • Alison
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 6474
                #8
                Yes, it may still be easier to think of it being the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day.

                This can quite often be in December as is the case this year (and next). Btw,

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26575
                  #9
                  Originally posted by Alison View Post
                  Yes, it may still be easier to think of it being the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day.

                  This can quite often be in December as is the case this year (and next). Btw,

                  Thank you

                  Yes I knew the 'fourth Sunday' version - it's just I've been surprised over the last few years how early AS seemed to fall, and like Petrushka assumed without really thinking about it that it would be tomorrow.
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Alison
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 6474
                    #10
                    Last year Christmas Day was a Sunday - I think- so the last Sunday in Advent would have been 18 December then pushing back

                    (or is that forward?) Advent Sunday to 27 November which must be the earliest possible date it could be.

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                    • DracoM
                      Host
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 12993
                      #11
                      Do I take it that my normal way of listing for that particular broadcast is now redundant? To make it a bit easier on the eye, I don't usually set it out the way Caliban has. But if what's already listed upthread is Ok, I won't bother.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26575
                        #12
                        Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                        Do I take it that my normal way of listing for that particular broadcast is now redundant? To make it a bit easier on the eye, I don't usually set it out the way Caliban has. But if what's already listed upthread is Ok, I won't bother.

                        Oh sorry, I didn't know you had a normal way...! I just noticed the listing on the R3 schedule and copied and pasted. The line spacing isn't ideal, I agree. If you have a more readily-legible source, feel free. (Or copy it into a PM and I can amend my post!)... Didn't mean to tread on toes!
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • ardcarp
                          Late member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 11102
                          #13
                          It is very sad that it isn't live. I guess it's to do with short Oxbridge terms. One might have hoped that the responsibility attached to being a famed choral institution might have extended to being present for Advent Sunday. I may have got this all wrong of course. Can anyone definitively say which Advent broadcasts in recent years have been live and which recorded; and if recorded, for what reason?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26575
                            #14
                            Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
                            It is very sad that it isn't live. I guess it's to do with short Oxbridge terms. One might have hoped that the responsibility attached to being a famed choral institution might have extended to being present for Advent Sunday. I may have got this all wrong of course. Can anyone definitively say which Advent broadcasts in recent years have been live and which recorded; and if recorded, for what reason?
                            Certainly for Advent Sunday 2011, one reads in the R3 schedule:

                            A SERVICE FOR ADVENT WITH CAROLS
                            live from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge

                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Alison
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 6474
                              #15
                              I recall the service being recorded the day before on a handful of occasions but the recent trend has been to restore the live transmissions.
                              If I may say so the postings of Caliban and Petrushka on this thread are proof enough of the outreach of this service.
                              A bad start to Advent indeed!

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