Choir Repertoire

Here is a sample of the Chancel Choir's recent and upcoming repertoire.

William Billings: A Virgin Unspotted
Benjamin Britten: Jubilate Deo
Dietrich Buxtehude: Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Your Word
William Dawson: O, What a Beautiful City; Ain-a That Good News; Soon-ah Will be Done
Maurice Durufle: Ubi caritas, Notre Pere
Edward Elgar: Ave Verum Corpus
Gabriel Faure: Requiem (complete), Cantique de Jean Racine
Mark Gorman: O Come, O Come Emmanuel; Prayer of Cardinal Newman
G. F. Handel: Messiah excerpts
Moses Hogan: Lord, Hear My Prayer
Gustav Holst: Personent Hodie; Let All Mortal Flesh
Herbert Howells: Like as a Hart
Felix Mendelssohn: As the Hart Longs
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium
Giovanni Palestrina: Sicut cervus
John Rutter: God Be in My Head
Franz Schubert: Mass in G
Leo Sowerby: Good King Wenceslas
Williametta Spencer: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me
Traditional African: Louez le Seigneur
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune

Christmas Eve Services

The Christmas Eve Service of Lessons and Carols is closely modeled after the same service at King's College of the University of Cambridge in East Anglia. At New Hope, it is the musical highlight of the year, featuring an extended prelude of music, special arrangements of hymns and carols, instrumental ensembles and guest musicians, and anthems by the Chancel Choir and Handbell Choir.

One guest musician said it was "the most musical service" she had ever attended. Anyone can participate by joining one or more of the ensembles or by reading one of the lessons.