The Concert Singers
Westchester Community Thanksgiving Service
Sunday, November 24, 2002
Covenant Presbyterian Church
4:00 p.m. (Singers call time: 1:00)
- Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (setting by Joel Rainey; see below)
- We Give Our Hands to You (w. Daisy Nshakazongwe; Eng. trans. Andrew
Donaldson; m. trad. Botswana tune)
- This Is the Day the Lord Has Made (w. adapted from Psalm 118; m. Allen Pote)
- Let All Things Now Living (1939: w. Katherine K. Davis; m. ash
grove: Welsh folk song; harmonized by Gerald H. Knight)
- 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)
- For the Beauty of the Earth (m. John Rutter)
- 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)