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The Choir of
St. James by-the-Sea

MUSIC LIST   2024-2025

Alex Benestelli, Director of Music
Bruce Neswick, Artist-in-Residence

Pentecost XV
September 10

Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 376, 593, 674, 778
Psalm 119 - Peter Hallock 
Draw us in the Spirit's tether - Harold Friedell
Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statues - David Hurd
Voluntaries:  
A Meditation on “Draw us in the Spirit’s tether” - Gerre Hancock
Toccata giocosa, Op. 36, No. 2  William Mathias

Pentecost XVI
September 17
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 390, 776, 581, 347
Psalm 103 - Peter Hallock 
My song shall be alway of the loving kindness of the Lord - Gerald Near
Come now, O prince of peace - Geonyong Lee
Voluntaries:  
Lobe den Herren, BWV 650 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Final from Suite for Organ - Gerald Near

Pentecost XVII
September 24
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 414, 617, LEVAS 76, 312
Psalm 145- Peter Hallock 
Be Thou My Vision - Irish folk tune, arr. Bob Chilcott
Panis Angelicus - Cesar Franck
Voluntaries:  

Pentecost XVIII

October 1
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 
Psalm 150 - Charles Villiers Stanford
Let the peoples praise you, O God - Bruce Neswick 
A Hymn for St. Cecilia - Herbert Howells
Voluntaries:
Siciliano for a High Ceremony - Herbert Howells
Pièce d’orgue, BWV 572 - Johann Sebastian Bach
 
St. Francis of Assisi
October 8
Hymns: 400, 405 
Venite - David Ashley White
All things bright and beautiful - John Rutter
Voluntaries:  Improvisation

Pentecost XX
October 15
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 7, 515, 316, 556
Psalm 23 - Peter Hallock
The Lord is My Shepherd - Howard Goodall
Rejoice in the Lord alway - Anonymous
Voluntaries:  


Pentecost XXI
October 22
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 412, 706, 689, 665
Psalm 96 - Peter Hallock
A Clare Benediction - John Rutter
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness - John Travers
Voluntaries:  

Pentecost XXII
October 29
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 375, 538, 602, 336
Psalm 1 - Peter Hallock
Blessed is the man - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Happy are they
who have not walked - Heinrich Schütz
Voluntaries:  
Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 - Johann Sebastian Bach

All Saints (Observed)
November 5
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 287, 286, 624, 625
Psalm 34 - Peter Hallock
Never weather beaten sail from Songs of Farewell - C. Hubert H. Parry
Pie Jesu from Requiem - Gabriel Faure
Voluntaries: 
Elegy - James Biery
Tuba Tune - Craig Sellar Lang

Remembrance Day
November 12
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 680, 620, 608, 597
Psalm 70 - Peter Hallock
They are at rest - Edward Elgar
For the fallen - Douglas Guest
Voluntaries: 
Land of Rest - Richard Proulx


Choral Evensong | 4:00pm
St. Mary's Chapel 

Responses 
Phos Hilaron - Swandart
Psalms 93, 96
Canticles - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B minor - T. Tertius Noble
Anthem
Office Hymn
Voluntary


Pentecost XXV
November 19
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 375, 538, 602, 551
Psalm 90 - Peter Hallock
The Risen Sun - Craig Phillips
Serve bone - Orlando di Lasso
Voluntaries: 
Romanza - Ralph Vaughan Williams

Last Sunday after Pentecost
November 26
Mass Setting: Mass of St. Thomas - David Thorne
Hymns: 450, 478, 324, 544
Psalm 95 - Peter Hallock
And He Shall Reign As King - Larry King
Praise - George Dyson
Voluntaries: 
Picardy - Alec Rowley
Crown Imperial - William Walton

Advent I
December 3
Mass Setting: St. James Advent Service - Richard Shephard
Hymns: 61, 601, LEVAS 13, 721
Psalm 80 - Peter Hallock
Advent Anthem - Richard Proulx
Ne irascaris - William Byrd
Voluntaries: 
Wachet auf, BWV 645 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Wachet auf - Hugo Distler

An Advent Procession of Lessons and Carols
5:00pm | St. Mary's Chapel

Three settings of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Johann Sebastian Bach
Matin Responsory - Bruce Neswick 
Adam lay ybounden - Colin Mawby 
A Spotless Rose - Herbert Howells 
Advent Anthem - Richard Proulx
This is the record of John - Orlando Gibbons
Drop down ye heavens, from above - Judith Weir
Fugue on the Magnificat, BWV 733 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Advent II
December 10
Mass Setting: St. James Advent Service - Richard Shephard
Hymns: 444, 67, 54, 59
Psalm 85 - Peter Hallock
And the glory of the lord from Messiah - George Frederick Handel
E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come - Paul Manz
Voluntaries: 
Partita on Psalm 42 - Georg Böhm
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 660 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Advent III
December 17
Mass Setting: St. James Advent Service - Richard Shephard
Hymns: 616, 76, 65, 66
Psalm 126 - Peter Hallock
The Spirit of the Lord is Upon Me - Edward Elgar
When the Lord turned again - Adrian Batten
Voluntaries: 
Partita on Winchester New - Bruce Neswick
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 661 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Advent IV
December 24
Mass Setting: St. James Advent Service - Richard Shephard
Hymns: 74, 265, 268, 56
Canticle: Magnificat
Ave Maria - Peter Schubert
Ave Maria - Marcel Dupré
Voluntaries: 
Ave Maria - Jean Langlais
Magnificat, BWV 733 - Johann Sebastian Bach

Nativity of Our Lord
December 24
Mass Setting: William Mathias
Hymns: 83, 94, 79, 111, 100
Psalm 96 - Peter Hallock
Hodie Christus natus est - Giovanni Gabrieli
Torches - John Joubert
Voluntaries: 

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