The Concert Singers

Westchester Community Thanksgiving Service

Sunday, November 24, 2002

Covenant Presbyterian Church

4:00 p.m. (Singers call time: 1:00)

1. Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (setting by  Joel Rainey; see below)
2. We Give Our Hands to You (w. Daisy Nshakazongwe; Eng. trans. Andrew Donaldson; m. trad. Botswana tune)
3. This Is the Day the Lord Has Made (w. adapted from Psalm 118; m. Allen Pote)
4. Let All Things Now Living (1939: w. Katherine K. Davis; m. ash grove: Welsh folk song; harmonized by Gerald H. Knight)
5. O God Our Help in Ages Past (w. Isaac Watts, 1719, alt.; m. st anne: attr. William Croft, 1708; pisgah: trad. American, in Kentucky Harmony, 1816; arr. William R. Wood)
6. For the Beauty of the Earth (m. John Rutter)
7. Hymn Medley (arr. Craig Curry)
   • Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (w. Henry Alford; m. George J. Elvey)
   • Sing to the Lord of Harvest (w. John S. B. Monsell; m. Johann Steurlein)
   • Now Thank We All Our God (Ger. w. Martin Rickart; Eng. trans. Catherine Winkworth; m. Johann Crüger)

Not part of this program:

• America (w: Samuel Francis Smith; m: from Thesaurus Musicus, 1740; arr. Robert Hunter, 1965)
• Yom Seh le-Yisrael (1973; trad. sabbath table hymn; arr. Dudley Cohen)