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Peace be to you: ​Christmas 1918 - 2018

Friday 14th December 2018
Keble College Chapel, Oxford

Our Christmas concert in 2018 explored music by composers whose lives were touched by war. In this centenary year of the armistice, we drew together carols and readings which embody the Christmastide desire for peace on earth.
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Poulenc: Un soir de neige
Howells: Here is the little door
Dyson: To Music
Ord: Adam lay ybounden
R O Morris (arr. JMP): Love came down at Christmas

Reading: A Christmas Prayer, Cyril Winterbotham

​Holst: Lullay my Liking
Parry: Two Carols
           1. Sing the Birth
           2. Welcome, Yule!
Arr Pearsall: In dulci Jubilo
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Reading: Christmas Bells, H.W. Longfellow

Howells: Salve Regina
Holst (arr Gjeilo): In the bleak midwinter
Manz: E'en so, Lord Jesus
Praetorius: Magnificat Quinti toni