December 19: Transmogrified Christmas Tunes

Louis Vierne: Carillon de Westminster			(CD: Great Toccatas)
		(Marie-Claire Alain, organ)

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Choral Improvisations on 		(CD: Discovery +
		"In dulci jubilo"			 Music for Christmas)
		(James Welch, organ)

Verbum Caro						(CD: Christmas at
		(Choir of Trinity Episcopal Church,	     Trinity)
		 Portland, Oregon; John Strege)

Marcel Dupré: In dulci jubilo				(CD: Christmas at
		(George Baker, organ)			     Trinity)


Frederick Hohmann: Comic Variations on			(CD: A Saint-Saëns
		"Good King Wenceslas"			 Sort of Christmas)

Dupré: Variations sur un vieux noël			(CD: Christmas at
		(George Baker, organ)			     Trinity)

Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf			(CD: Peter and the Wolf)
		(Patrick Stewart, narrator;
		 Orchestre de L'Opéra de Lyon;
		 Kent Nagano)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Christmas Oratorio			(CD: A Saint-Saëns
		(Pacific Mozart Ensemble;		 Sort of Christmas)
		 Richard Grant)

John Gardiner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day		(CD: Sing We Merrily)
		(St. John's Episcopal Cathedral Choir;
		 Donald Pearson)

Jean Mouton: Noe, psallite noe				(Christmas 1992)
Guillaume Bouzignc: Alleluia, Deus dixit
He is born the holy child
		(Bay Area Luthern Chorale;
		 Allen H. Simon)

Here are some selections performed in Stanford Memorial Church. Carolyn Shapiro's piece uses a Hebrew text for the Feast of Lights; i.e., Chanukah.

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (arr. Willcocks)	(CD: Christmas at
		(Stanford University Chamber Chorus)	     Stanford)
Carolyn Shapiro: Yi Te Maleil
		(Stanford University Singers)
William Matthias: Sir Christémas
		(Stanford University Chamber Chorus)

Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella (arr. Keith Chapman)	(CD: Discovery +
		(James Welch, organ)			 Music for Christmas)

J. S. Bach: Cantata 140 - Wachet Auf (selections)	(CD: Bach Cantatas)
		(Monteverdi Chorus and Orchestra;
		 John Eliot Gardiner)

Janice Giteck: Tapasya					(CD: Home (revisited))
		(Mimi Dye, viola;
		 Matthew Kocmieroski, percussion)

Paul Lansky: Table's Clear				(CD: Homebrew)

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