Carol Our Christmas - Music CD

Carol Our Christmas – Music CD

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Carol Our Christmas is a distinctive collection of 52 New Zealand carols which reflect a “summer Christmas” in the Southern Hemisphere – recognising the light, sun and local rhythm of Aotearoa rather than the usual Northern-hemisphere snow imagery.

The inclusion of six Christmas poems by notable New Zealand writers (such as Joy Cowley and Eileen Duggan) and a foreword by Joy Cowley further root the collection in the local context.

The carols span the traditional nativity narrative, the wonder of incarnation, reflections on creation and community, and new-perspectives on Christmas – offering fresh imagery, humour and relevance.

For ministers and worship leaders this book offers a rich resource: it allows congregations to celebrate Christmas with carols that feel culturally and environmentally appropriate to New Zealand, supports guitar and congregational use (with chords included), and gives fresh textual material that can deepen the seasonal service beyond the familiar.

The collection is a strong asset for summer carol services for communities in the southern hemisphere, and anyone seeking to refresh the Christmas repertoire with meaningful, contextually sensitive music.

Description

24 carols

Note:  The CD does not contain recordings of all 54 carols in the book, just a selection

Sung by Wellington adult & youth choirs

Participating choirs and singers: Wellington Youth Choir, Kiwikids, Wellington Cathedral Choir, Sings Harry, Wellington Secondary Students’ Choir, Rachel Gillon and Mike Wespel-Rose.

Listing of all tracks including names of, first, the writer of the words, second, the composer of the music.

1. Carol our Christmas, an upside down Christmas, Shirley Murray/ Colin Gibson
2. Gloria in excelsis Deo, Colin Daley
3. Child of Christmas story, Shirley Murray/Richard Madden
4. Look towards Christmas! Shirley Murray/Jillian Bray
5. Clippety clop, clippety clop, Jackie Wise/Jackie Wise
6. Come now, Lord Jesus, Shirley Murray/Zulu melody
7. Sing a carol for summer, Shirley Murray/Jillian Bray
8. All who would see God’s greatness, Marnie Barrell/Ian Render
9. And did you see Him, little star? Helen Clyde/Colin Gibson
10. Where is the room? Shirley Murray/David Dell
11. Open, open, open  the stable door, Colin Gibson/Colin Gibson
12. All over creation, Shirley Murray/David Dell
13. Don’t tell anyone, Colin Gibson/Colin Gibson
14. Gloria, Gloria, glory in the highest, Colin Gibson
15. Awake before sunrise, Bill Bennett/Bill Bennett
16. Peace Child, Shirley Murray/Colin Gibson
17. Te Harinui/Not on a snowy night, Willow Macky/Willow Macky
18. Greetings, little child of Bethlehem, Cecily Sheehy/Cecily Sheehy
19. Star-Child, earth-Child, Shirley Murray/Carlton Young
20. The stars danced, Barbara Gillard/Barbara Gillard
21. Set the sun dancing, Shirley Murray/Shona Murray
22. You are born in us again, Mark Wilson/Mark Wilson
23. Come in, come in New Year, Shirley Murray/Ian Render
24. Heav’n is ringing (Merry Christmas Rag) Colin Gibson/Colin Gibson