DECEMBER 2004 / YEAR A

by Pastor W. Bruce Benson, host

’m about to do two In the midst of all that not-so-subtle encourage- things of which I don’t ment to avoid Advent and move on quickly from I usually approve: I’m Christmas, I should be encouraging you to slow going to look right past down, to linger with Advent, to savor the whole Christmas to the new year; Christmas season. Instead, here I am jumping and, in order to do that, I’ll also have to look ahead to the new year. past Advent. Neither season deserves to be overlooked or ignored, and they will not be And this is why. With the arrival of 2005, we on the Sing For Joy programs you hear during have the honor of recognizing a 50-year radio December. ministry and the first broadcasts of what is today known as Sing For Joy. Dr. Alvin Rueter, along American popular culture, on the other hand, with his wife, Beulah, began negotiations with an almost always looks past Advent to Christmas. Oklahoma radio station and preparing programs Most of us know that the American economy in their home in late 1954 and early 1955 — and depends upon people using Advent to do their by early 1955, Music On High was on the air. Christmas shopping. The marketplace, therefore, needs us to think constantly about Christmas Many of you who read this newsletter have read shopping in order to keep us buying, whereas many columns over the years by Dr. Rueter. I’m Advent invites us instead to contemplate, repent, pleased to tell you that one more is on the way. think soberly about the world’s needs and God’s We have asked him to tell some of the Sing For love, perhaps simplify our lives, and prepare our Joy history in next month’s issue of the newsletter. hearts for the celebration of Christmas. Christmas shopping for loved ones can, of course, be a Having said all that about the upcoming year, happy part of that preparation if it is done let me encourage you not to let Advent and joyfully and with good stewardship. In other Christmas go unnoticed. Each season is a gift, words, if it is done to honor rather than a gift to the soul. A blessed Advent and merry avoid Advent. Christmas to you.

Once Christmas Day is past — well, maybe I should say, once the-day-after-Christmas-gift- return-and-sale-shopping is past — the market- place needs us to buy again, so it skips as fast as it can from Christmas to New Year, reminding us W. Bruce Benson to stock up for New Year’s Eve celebrations. December 5, 2004 December 12, 2004 Scriptures for 2 Advent: Scriptures for 3 Advent: (1R) Isaiah 11:1-10 (1R) Isaiah 35:1-10 (PS) Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 (PS) Psalm 146:5-10 or Luke 1:47-55 (2R) Romans 15:4-13 (2R) James 5:7-10 (G) Matthew 3:1-12 (G) Matthew 11:2-11

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (VENI EMMANUEL) – Hark! The Glad Sound – John Jenkins Husband (G) French Processional, arr. and Alice Parker (1R, 2R) Columbus Consort, The Netherlands / Joseph Pettit New York Choral Artists, New York, N.Y. / Joseph Flummerfelt (CD) Christmas in Early America / CHANNEL CLASSICS / (CD) O Come, All Ye Faithful / EMI / CDC 7 49908 2 CCS 5693 © 1989 manufactured for EMI by Capitol Records, Inc., © 1983 Channel Classics, PO Box 5642, Englewood, NJ 07631 1750 N. Vine St., Hollywood, Calif. channelclassics.com emiclassics.com Go and Tell John – Larry L. Fleming (G) A Spotless Rose – Herbert Howells (1R, 2R) National Lutheran Choir / Larry L. Fleming Cambridge Singers / John Rutter (CD) Soul / NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR RECORDINGS / (CD) Faire is the Heaven / COLLEGIUM / COLCD 107 NLCA-102 © 1988 Collegium Records USA, PO Box 31366, © National Lutheran Choir, PO Box 6450, Omaha, NE 68131 , MN 55406-6450 collegiumusa.com nlca.com

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How a Rose) – Michael Praetorius, A Stable-lamp is Lighted – Craig Philips (PS – Luke, G) arr. Jan Sandström (1R, 2R) St. Olaf Viking Chorus / Robert Scholz , Minneapolis, Minn. / Dale Warland (CD) He Comes to Us / ST. OLAF RECORDS / E-2388-9 (CD) Christmas With the Dale Warland Singers / GOTHIC / © 2000 St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, G 49208 Northfield, MN 55057 © 2002 Gothic Records, 10 Harrison St, Ste 311, stolafrecords.com Seattle, WA 98109-4509 gothicrecords.com Light One Candle to Watch for Messiah – Yiddish Folk Tune, arr. Richard Erickson (1R, 2R, G) On Jordan’s Bank (WINCHESTER NEW) – Musikalisches Handbuch, Holy Trinity Bach Choir, New York / Richard Erickson arr. Malcolm Archer (G) (CD) Joining Hearts & Voices / AUGSBURG FORTRESS / 3-308 Choir of Wells Cathedral / Malcolm Archer © 1997 Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, Minn. (CD) Hills of the North, Rejoice: The English Hymn Vol. 3 / augsburgfortress.com) HYPERION / CDP12103 Magnificat (Short Service) – Orlando Gibbons (PS – Luke) © 2002 Hyperion Records, Ltd., London, England Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Philip Ledger www.hyperion-records.co.uk (CD) Orlando Gibbons: Tudor Church Music ASV / CD GAU 123 Comfort Ye My People (Excerpt) – Samuel Holyoke (G) © 1990 Academy Sound and Vision, Ltd., 179-181 N End Rd, Columbus Consort, The Netherlands / Joseph Pettit London, England W14 9NL (CD) Christmas in Early America / CHANNEL CLASSICS / People Look East (BESANÇON) – French Carol, CCS 5693 arr. Craig Philips (PS) © 1983 Channel Classics, PO Box 5642, Englewood, NJ 07631 St. Bartholomew’s Choristers, New York, N.Y. / channelclassics.com Vincent H. Edwards (CD) “Sing in Exultation!” / PRO ORGANO / CD 7150 All Hail the Lord’s Anointed (ELLECOMBE) – Gesangbuch der Herzogl, orch. Timothy Mahr (PS, 1R) © 2001 The Zarex Corporation, South Bend, Ind. Massed Choirs of St. Olaf College; The St. Olaf Orchestra / zarex.com Steven Amundson Prepare the Royal Highway (BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN) – (CD) He Comes to Us: The 2000 St. Olaf Christmas Festival / Swedish Folk Tune (G) ST. OLAF RECORDS / E-2388-9 Hymn Festival Congregation / Mark Sedi, organ © 2000 St. Olaf Records, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, WCAL NATIONAL PROGRAMMING PRIVATE RECORDING Northfield, MN, 55057 / NOT FOR RESALE stolafrecords.com © 2004 WCAL National Programming, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057

Rejoice, Rejoice and Greet the New Morn (REJOICE, REJOICE) – Marty Haugen (G) St. Thomas Liturgical Choir, Minneapolis, Minn. / Marty Haugen (CD) Marty Haugen: Anthology I, 1980-1984 / GIA PUBLICATIONS / GIA CD-400 © 1997 GIA Publications, Inc., 7404 S Mason Ave, Chicago, IL 60638 giamusic.com December 19, 2004 December 26, 2004 Scriptures for 4 Advent: Scriptures for Feast of St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr, (1R) Isaiah 7:10-16 1 Christmas: (PS) Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 (1R) Isaiah 63:7-9 (2R) Romans 1:1-7 (PS) Psalm 148 (G) Matthew 1:18-25 (2R) Hebrews 2:10-18 (G) Matthew 2:13-23 An Advent Collage – arr. John Ferguson (G) (STV) Feast of St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr Massed Choirs of St. Olaf College / John Ferguson (CD) Radio Program for the 1993 Holiday Season / WCAL / Good King Wenceslas – English Traditional, NOT FOR RESALE arr. Robert Shaw and Alice Parker (STV) © 1997 WCAL National Programming, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, Atlanta, Ga. / Robert Shaw Northfield, MN 55057 (CD) Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymns and Carols / TELARC / CD-80377 Cherry Tree Carol – Kentucky Mountain Ballad, © 1994 Telarc International Corp., 23307 Commerce Park Rd, arr. Robert Shaw and Alice Parker (G) Celeveland, OH 44122 Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, Atlanta, Ga.; telarc.com Christopher Cock, tenor / Robert Shaw (CD) Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymns and Carols / TELARC / Staffan Stalledräng (Stephen, The Stable Lad) – CD-80377 Swedish Traditional (STV) © 1994 Telarc International Corp., 23307 Commerce Park Rd, Anne-Charlotte Harvey; Ellen Harvey; Paul Severtson Celeveland, OH 44122 (CD) A Swedish Christmas / SKANDISK / MCD 5701 telarc.com © 1999 Skandisk, Inc., 6667 W Old Shakopee Rd, Ste 109, Bloomington, MN 55438 Joseph est bien marié (Joseph is Well Married) – Anonymous French, 17th Century (G) It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (NOEL) – English Traditional, Boston Camerata, Boston, Mass. / Joel Cohen arr. Arthur Sullivan (STV) (CD) A Renaissance Christmas / NONESUCH / 9 79134-2 Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury © 1986 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019 (CD) Carols from King’s / COLLINS CLASSICS / 13352 © 1991 Fleur de Lys Enterprises Ltd., Collins Classics, Sussex Carol (SUSSEX CAROL) – English Traditional, a division of Lambourne Productions, Ltd. arr. Philip Ledger (G) Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury I Wonder as I Wander – Appalachian Folk Carol, (CD) A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols / EMI CLASSICS / arr. Andrew Carter (G) 7243 5 73693 2 9 Quire of London / Andrew Carter © 1999 EMI Classics, 304 Park Ave S, New York, NY 10010 (CD) Andrew Carter’s Christmas Carols / YORK AMBISONIC / emiclassics.com YORK CD 169 The Angel Gabriel – David Carney (1R) © 2002 Brendan Hearne / York Ambisonic, PO Box 66, Lancaster, Dale Warland Singers, Minneapolis, Minn. / Dale Warland England LA2 6HS (CD) A Rose in Winter / D’NOTE CLASSICS / DSD 1022 worldwidemusiconline.com © 1997 d’Note Entertainment, Distributed by Allegro Coventry Carol – 16th Century English, arr. Martin Shaw (G) Corporation, 14134 Airport Way, Portland, OR 97230 Memphis Boychoir, Memphis, Tenn. / John Ayer dnote.com (CD) Sing Lullaby / PRO ORGANO / CD 7099 Lift Up Your Heads (TRURO) – Thomas Williams, Psalmodia © 1997 The Zarex Corporation, South Bend, Ind. Evangelica, arr. Olaf C. Christiansen (1R, G) zarex.com St. Olaf Choir / Anton Armstrong Glory Be to God – Jean Berger (PS) (CD) Great Hymns of Faith, Volume II / ST. OLAF RECORDS / St. Olaf Choir / E-2651 (CD) Sing For Joy / ST. OLAF RECORDS / E-269 © 2004 St. Olaf Records, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, © 1991 St. Olaf Records, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057 Northfield, MN 55057 stolafrecords.com stolafrecords.com

O Thou, The Central Orb – Charles Wood (G) All You Works of the Lord – Kenneth Jennings (PS) Choir of the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas / Massed Choirs of St. Olaf College; St. Olaf Orchestra / Kevin Clarke Anton Armstrong (CD) The Royal Standard / PRO ORGANO / CD 7182 (CD) Behold the Wonder of This Night / ST. OLAF RECORDS / © 2003 The Zarex Corporation, South Bend, Ind. E-2245 zarex.com © 1998 St. Olaf College, 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Northfield, MN 55057 stolafrecords.com

Please contact us at Sing For Joy for more information regarding these recordings. DECEMBER 2004 / YEAR A

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Our CD, Home, Harvest & Healing, is a good companion to your contemplation, preparation and celebration this Advent and Christmas season. The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians’ recent review stated, among other things, that “the setting of Psalm 126 by Abbie Betinis (b.1980) is truly striking, and {John} Ferguson’s arrangement of the old ‘Marching to Zion’ is pure musical delight.” We invite you to gauge its beauty and inspiration this holiday season.

Home, Harvest & Healing: A Sing For Joy Hymn Festival is available at www.stolafrecords.com or by calling 507-646-3646.