Pocketful of Grace

Christmas with Grace and Friends, 2023

December 26, 2023 Grace Lutheran Church
Pocketful of Grace
Christmas with Grace and Friends, 2023
Show Notes

1. Gabriel's Voice (Ian Higginson). MUSIC: Ian Higginson. TEXT: Carol Gunn. © St. James Music Press. Streamed with permission of St. James Press, License #21540. Grace Lutheran Church of State College choral ensemble. Laurel Sanders, Director
2. I Saw Three Ships  (Anna M. DeFoe). MUSIC: Anna M. DeFoe. TEXT: William Sandys (1833; public domain). © St. James Music Press, 2010. Streamed with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.
3. Still, Still, Still (arr. Catherine McMichael). MUSIC: Still, Still, Still from A Lyric Noel. Austrian Carol, arr. Catherine McMichael. © 2003 ALRY Publications, LLC. Used and streamed with permission from ALRY Publications (music available at United Music & Media Publishers, https://ummpstore.com). All Rights Reserved. Recorded by The Whistle Tones (thewhistletones.com).
4. Good King Wenceslas (arr. Catherine McMichael). MUSIC: Good King Wenceslas from A Renaissance Noel, English Carol, arr. Catherine McMichael. © 2001 ALRY Publications, LLC. Used and streamed with permission from ALRY Publications (music available at United Music & Media Publishers, https://ummpstore.com). All Rights Reserved. Recorded by The Whistle Tones (thewhistletones.com).
5. ‘Star Carol’ by John Rutter. © Oxford University Press 1972. Licensed by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
6. Von Himmel hoch, da komm'ich her (Johann Pachelbel), P.52 from Orgelkompositionen II (Editor: Max Seiffert). Publisher: Breitkopf and Härtel (1903). Public Domain.
7.  Mary Had a Baby, John Carter's setting of the traditional Spiritual. Laurel Sanders (flute) and Cynthia Mills (piano) for Grace Lutheran Church with permission from the publisher, Beckenhorst Press (https://www.beckenhorstpress.com).  © Copyright 2010 by Beckenhorst Press, Inc. All rights reserved.  Used with permission. ONE LICENSE #A-700989.
8. Joy on Earth Now Appearing  (Charles H. Giffen). MUSIC: Traditional Ukrainian Carol; Charles H. Giffen. WORDS: Traditional Ukrainian; translation by Charles H. Giffen. Copyright © 1973 (translation), 1992, 2004, 2019, 2022 (music) by Charles Giffen. Music available at www.cpdll.org. Used with permission of Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en. All other rights reserved.
9. Lullaby for the Sleeping Savior  (Robert J. Powell). MUSIC: Robert J. Powell. WORDS: Beverly Easterling. © St. James Music Press 2010. Used with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.
10.  A Child is Born  (Samuel Scheidt). MUSIC: Samuel Scheidt from Cantiones Sacrae Octo Vocum, arr. for four voices by Mark Schweizer. © St. James Music Press 2010. Used with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.
11. The Holy and the Ivy  (arr. Richard Shephard). MUSIC: Traditional English; setting by Richard Shephard.  © St. James Music Press, 2010, www.sjmp.com. Used with permission of St. James Press, License #21540.
12. "Christmas Medley for Four Flutes," arr. Laurel Sanders includes:  Es ist ein Ros, Warum sollt ich, and O Sanctissima (Lo, How a Rose; All My Heart Again Rejoices; and O, How Joyful). Permission to stream this music granted by ONE LICENSE, License #A-700989.
13. Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (arr. Catherine McMichael). MUSIC: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella from A Lyric Noel. French Carol, arr. Catherine McMichael, © 2003 ALRY Publications, LLC. Used and streamed with permission from ALRY Publications (music available at United Music & Media Publishers, https://ummpstore.com). All Rights Reserved. Recorded by The Whistle Tones (

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