The FMC children will premier their 2021 Christmas Program video. Romaine and Vicky will also offer extended special Christmas music.
Acknowledgements for Worship Resources
“Good Christian Men, Rejoice”
Music: German traditional, 14th c.; Setting by John Carter; ©1989 Harold Flammer, Inc
“Appalachian Christmas Carol”
By John Ness Beck; ©1971 G Schirmer, Inc
“The First Nowell the Angel Did Say”
Arranged by Kathy C Bowen; ©1983 Broadman Press
“Hope Is a Candle”
Text: Richard Leach, 1994, ©1995 Selah Publishing Co., Inc.; Music: Scottish traditional; acc. James E Clemens, 2006; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“Longing for Light”
Text & Music: Bernadette Farrell; ©1993 OCP Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“Appalachian Christmas Carols” (After John Jacob Niles)
Arranged by Vincent Persichetti; Collection ©1975 Elkan-Vogel, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“O Come, O Come, Immanuel”
Text: anon., O Antiphons, ca. 8th-9th c.; “Veni, veni Emmanuel,” 12th c.; stanzas 1-5 trans. John M Neale, Medieval Hymns and Sequences, 1851, alt.; stanzas 6-7 trans. Henry Sloane Coffin, Hymns of the Kingdom of God, 1916; Music: trope melody, 15th c.
“Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming”
Arranged by Dennis Alexander; ©2003 Alfred Publishing Co, Inc; All rights reserved. Streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084
“Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”
Text: stanzas 1-2 anon., “Es ist ein Ros‘ entsprungen“, 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengasäng, 1599; trans. Theodore Baker, 1894; stanza 3 Friedrich Layritz, Liederschatz, 1832; trans. Harriet K Spaeth, The Hymnal, 1940, alt.; Music: German traditional, 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengasäng, 1599; harm. Michael Praetorius, Musae Sionae VI, 1609
“What Child is This?”
By John Ness Beck; ©1971 G Schirmer, Inc
“Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus”
Text: Charles Wesley, Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord, 1744; stanza 2 adapt. from “Light of Those Whose Dreary Dwelling” in the same collection; Music: Rowland H Prichard, ca. 1830, Cyfaill y Cantorion, 1844; arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, The English Hymnal, 1906, adapt. 1951, BBC Hymn Book, ©Oxford University Press, London