in King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Processional Hvmn: Once in Royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlet!)
The Bidding Prayer
Up! good Christen folk, and listen (Piae Cantiones 1582, arr Wood-ward); Resonet in laudi- bus (Jacob Handl 1550-1591, arr Ledger)
First Lesson: Genesis 3, vv 8-15, 17-19: A CHORISTER Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ordi ; Sussex Carol (trad English, arr Ledger)
Second Lesson: Genesis 22, VV 15-18: A CHORAL SCHOLAR
Joseph and Mary (trad English, arr Vaughan Williams ): I saw three ships (trad English, arr Ledger)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 9, VV 2, 6, 7: A REPRESENTATIVE or THE CAMBRIDGE
CHURCHES
I sing of a maiden (Lennox Berkeley)
Hymn: God rest you merry, gentlemen (trad English, arr Willcocks)
Fourth Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv l-3a, 4a, 6-9: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE
A maiden most gentle (arr Andrew Carter , born 1939); The Holly and the Ivy (trad English, arr Watford Davies)
Fifth Lesson: St Luke 1, VV 26-35, 38: THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Gabriel's Message (Old Basque)
Sixth Lesson: St Luke 2, VV 1. 3-7: A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SISTER COLLEGE
AT ETON
As I outrode this enderes night (GeraldHendrie, born 1935i; Angels, from the realms of glorv (trad English, arr Ledger)
Seventh Lesson: St Luke 2, vv 8-16: A FELLOW
Hymn: While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592)
Stille Nacht' (Gruber, arr Ledger); The shepherds' cradle song (trad German, arr C. Macpherson)
Eighth Lesson: St Matthew 2, vv 1-11: THE vici-PROVOST
In the bleak mid-winter (Harold E. Darke )
Ninth Lesson: St John 1, vv 1-14: THE PROVOST
Hymn: 0 come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade ) Collect and Blessing
Hymn: Hark! The herald angels sing (Mendelssohn) Director of Music PHILIP LEDGER
THOMAS TROTTER (organ scholar)