Poetry Cafe 10: a Christmas Programme

1. Hymn: ‚O come all ye faithful‘ (Kings College Cambridge Choir)
2. Reading: New Testament, St. Luke, Ch. 2, verses 1 to 7
3. ‚For unto us a child is born‘, from ‚The Messiah‘ by Handel
(Huddersfield Choral Society, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
under Sir Charles Mackerras)
4. Poem: ‚In the bleak mid-winter‘, by Christina Rossetti
5. ‚In the bleak mid-winter‘: music by Gustav Holst (sung by Theatre
of Voices, under Paul Hillier)
6. Reading from ‚A Christmas Carol‘ (the very start) (Dickens), by
Brian Barnes
7. ‚The Christmas Song‘, sung by Nat King Cole
8. Carol: ‚In dulci jubilo‘, sung by The Sixteen under Harry Christophers
9. Reading: New Testament, St. Matthew, Ch. 2
10. Carol: ‚We Three Kings‘, sung by Tonus Peregrinus
11. Reading: New Testament, St. Luke, Ch. 2, from verse 8
12. Music: ‚The Shepherds‘ Farewell‘, from ‚L’Enfance du Christ‘, by
Hector Berlioz, sung by the Choir of Tewkesbury Abbey, under Andrew
Sackett
13. Poem: ‚Christmas Carol‘, by Sarah Teasdale
14. ‚White Christmas‘, sung by Dean Martin
15. Music: ‚The Coventry Carol‘, sung by The Sixteen under Harry Christophers
16. Reading from ‚A Christmas Carol‘ (the very ending) (Dickens), by
Brian Barnes
17. ‚Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas‘, sung by Frank Sinatra
18. ‚Hallelujah‘ Chorus, from ‚The Messiah‘ by Handel (Huddersfield
Choral Society, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under Sir
Charles Mackerras)