First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Chancel Choir Anthems in Date Order 2010-2014

      These historical pages list past anthems performed by the Chancel Choir of the First Congregational Church of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. All Services are on Sunday morning except as noted.
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      See the Chancel Choir Anthems in Title Order page for possible links to information about the Composer, Lyricist or Arranger for each title listed below, or the Classical, Broadway, Film and Choral Composers for these and many more names.

(n) = All Chancel Choir members were listed in the Church Service Bulletin
mm-dd-yyyy - ? = I have no copy of this Bulletin (I have a saved copy of the Bulletin for every other date listed)
** = all information is from the copy in the FCC Archives
Joanne Peterson: Chancel Choir Director and Organist

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2014
1. 12-24-2014 (Wed. 7:30 pm) - Go, Tell it on the Mountain - American folk song arr. John Rutter
         Away in a Manger - English folk song, setting by Susan T. Nelson
2. 12-21-2014 - Children of Light, Rejoice! - Ken Medema
3. 12-14-2014 - Magnificat - Dietrich Buxtehude
         violin: Pat Hallquist, Joseph Kerkhoff; cello: Matt Abraham; guest Choir members: Lucas Schulz, Maria Talin, Bridget Duffy-Ulrich, Kristopher Ulrich
4. 12-07-2014 - Come, Jesus, Holy Son of God - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
5. 11-30-2014 - Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - Gustav T. Holst
6. 11-23-2014 - Summer Ended - Charles Wood
7. 11-16-2014 - Morning Trumpet, The - B.F. White (Sacred Harp), arr. Robert P. Wetzler
8. 11-09-2014 - If I Had One Day - James F.D. Martin
9. 11-02-2014 - Amazing Grace - John Newton, arr. Katherine K. Davis
         Benediction - God Be With You Till We Meet Again (#434 "Chalice Hymnal")
10. 10-26-2014 - Order My Steps - Glenn Burleigh, arr. Jack Schrader
11. 10-19-2014 - Do Not Fear - Fred Gramann
12. 10-12-2014 - Jesus Loves Me - arr. John Ferguson
          piano: Tanya Paulson
13. 10-05-2014 - St. Francis Prayer - Carolyn Jennings
    09-28-2014
14. 09-21-2014 - Give Me a Clean Heart - Margaret J. Douroux, arr. Albert Denis Tessier (#182 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
          guest Choir Director: Kelsey Tarbert; organ, piano: Tanya Paulson
15. 09-14-2014 - Lord, It Belongs Not to My Care - Carl Schalk, Richard Baxter
16. 09-07-2014 - God Be In My Head - Andrew Carter

17. 07-27-2014 - Life's Railway to Heaven - Charles Davis Tillman, arr. J. Jefferson Cleveland & Verolga Nix (Summer Choir) (#68 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
18. 06-29-2014 - I Shall Not Be Moved - trad.. arr. J. Jefferson Cleveland & Verolga Nix (Summer Choir) (#35 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
    05-25-2014
    05-18-2014 - no anthem
19. 05-11-2014 - Psalm 86 - Carl S. Nygard, Jr.
    05-04-2014
    04-27-2014
20. 04-20-2014 - Festival Easter Hymn on 'Grafton' - K. Lee Scott
          Lord of the Dance - arr. Sir David Valentine Willcocks (#31, p.138 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
          Benediction - The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Peter C. Lutkin
21. 04-18-2014 (Good Friday) - God So Loved the World - Sir John Stainer
22. 04-13-2014 - One Lonely Night - Joseph M. Martin
23. 04-06-2014 - When We Are Tempted to Deny Your Son - Zebulon M. Highben, text: David W. Romig
          God So Loved the World - Sir John Stainer
24. 03-30-2014 - Create In Me, O God, A Pure Heart - Johannes Brahms
25. 03-23-2014 - The Lone, Wild Bird - A Southern Folk Tune, arr. David N. Johnson, text: Henry Richard McFadyen
          soprano: Kelsey Tarbert
          Benediction - A Gaelic Blessing - John Rutter
26. 03-16-2014 - How Can I Keep From Singing - trad., arr. Ronald Staheli
27. 03-09-2014 - Offertory - John Ness Beck
28. 03-02-2014 - How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place (Psalm 84) - Robert J. Powell
29. 02-23-2014 - Rejoice in the Lord Alway - Henry Purcell
    02-16-2014
    02-09-2014
    02-02-2014
    01-26-2014
    01-19-2014
    01-12-2014
    01-05-2014

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2013
1. 12-24-2013 (Tue. 7:30 pm) - In the Bleak Midwinter - Gustav T. Holst (#39, p.173 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
         Good Christian Men, Rejoice - German 14th-cent. arr. John Rutter
   12-22-2013
   12-15-2013
2. 12-08-2013 - Keep Silence - arr. John Helgen
   12-01-2013
3. 11-24-2013 - A Psalm of Praise - Benjamin Harlan, adapted from Psalms 103 and 150
4. 11-17-2013 - Union - American Folk Hymn, arr. Daniel C. Meyer
         piano: Madison McCarney
5. 11-10-2013 - If I Forget, Yet God Remembers - Daniel Pederson, words: Robert Browning
         Benediction - A Clare Benediction - John Rutter
6. 11-03-2013 - Sing to the Lord a New Song - Franz Joseph Haydn, paraphrased & arr. Hal H. Hopson
         Benediction - A Clare Benediction - John Rutter
7. 10-27-2013 - Blessed Assurance - Fanny J. Crosby & Phoebe P. Knapp, arr. Mark Hayes
   10-20-2013
8. 10-13-2013 - One Faith, One Hope, One Lord - Craig Courtney, based on Ephesians 4:4-6,13
9. 10-06-2013 - With a Voice of Singing - Martin Shaw
10. 09-29-2013 - Psalm 86 - Carl Nygard, Jr.
          Benediction - The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Peter C. Lutkin
11. 09-22-2013 - Come Down Lord - Stan Pethel
12. 09-15-2013 - Blest Are They Whose Spirits Long - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
13. 09-08-2013 - The Shepherd Psalm - John Carter, arr. Mary Kay Beall

14. 07-28-2013 - Steal Away - trad. (#134 "Songs of Zion" songbook) (Summer Choir)
15. 05-19-2013 - Pentecost Hymn - Edvard Grieg, arr. Bradley Ellingboe
16. 05-12-2013 - Dear God - music: Daniel Kallman, text: Herbert Brokering
17. 05-05-2013 - If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis, ed. Christopher Johns
18. 04-28-2013 - I Want Jesus to Walk With Me - African-American Spiritual, arr. Lloyd Larson
19. 04-21-2013 - Blessed Quietness - William S. Marshall, words: Marie P. Ferguson, arr. J. Jefferson Cleveland & Verolga Nix
20. 04-14-2013 - Christ Hath a Garden - Gerald Near
    04-07-2013
21. 03-31-2013 - Christ the Lord Is Ris'n Today - Eleanor Daley
22. 03-24-2013 - One Lonely Night - Joseph M. Martin
23. 03-17-2013 - Requiem - Bradley Ellingboe
          soprano: Molly Schlaak; cello: Matt Abraham; oboe: Gretchen Hermann
    03-10-2013
24. 03-03-2013 - Like as the Hart Desireth the Water Brooks - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
          Student Director: Amy Hartl
          The MacDowell Male Chorus sang three anthems in the service.
25. 02-24-2013 - I Will Arise - Joseph Hart, arr. Daniel Ashley White
          viola: Steve Schani
26. 02-17-2013 - Awake My Heart - Jane M. Marshall
          Alleluia (#106 "Chalice Hymnal"), with the Faith in Motion Choir (Director: Missy Allen)
27. 02-10-2013 - The Call - Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Douglas E. Wagner, words: George Herbert
28. 02-03-2013 - O Dearest Friend - Kenneth T. Kosche, based on "Londonderry Air", Jaroslav J. Vajda
    01-27-2013
29. 01-20-2013 - Order My Steps - Glenn Burleigh, arr. Jack Schrader
30. 01-13-2013 - Winter Carol - Austin C. Lovelace
          Guest Chancel Choir Director: Christina Conn; Guest Organist: Ellie Thomas
31. 01-06-2013 - O Morning Star - Harmony: Johann Sebastian Bach, melody: Phillipp Nicolai, trans: Catherine Winkworth
          There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob - Felix Mendelssohn

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2012
12-24-2012
12-23-2012
12-16-2012 - no anthem
1. 12-09-2012 - Walk in the Light - arr. Andre J. Thomas, refrain: George D. Elderkin, stanzas: Charles Wesley
   12-02-2012 - no anthem
         performance of "Old Befana" by Ken Lonnquist & Friends with David Adler, Anne Katz, Tom Pease, Joanne Schilling
2. 11-25-2012 - Sing Ye Praises to Our King - Aaron Copland
3. 11-18-2012 - Psalm and Alleluia - Johann Pachelbel, arr. John Purifoy
         Benediction - Dismissal Sentence "God Be With You" - Dale Wood (p. 10, #12, "Affirmations for Worship")
4. 11-11-2012 - A Canticle for Peace - Patrick Meyer
         with the Handbell Choir directed by Patrick Meyer
5. 11-04-2012 - A Canticle of Peace - Joseph W. Clokey
6. 10-28-2012 - My Song Shall Be Alway - Gerald Near, from Psalm 89
         Benediction - A Gaelic Blessing - John Rutter, words: an old Gaelic rune
7. 10-21-2012 - As the Hart Longeth - R. Evan Copley
8. 10-14-2012 - Come Build a Church - Ken Medema
         Benediction - A Gaelic Blessing - John Rutter, words: an old Gaelic rune
9. 10-07-2012 - Speak to One Another - Jean Berger
         Benediction - A Gaelic Blessing - John Rutter
10. 09-30-2012 - Here Am I, Send Me - Frank J. Wells
11. 09-23-2012 - God Be In My Head - Andrew Carter
12. 09-16-2012 - Day by Day - arr. Bradley Ellingboe, music: Oskar Ahnfelt, text: Carolina Sandell Berg, trans. Robert Leaf,
          Benediction - Dismissal Sentence "May the Grace of Christ" - Dale Wood (p. 9, #10, "Affirmations for Worship")
13. 09-09-2012 - Come All Who Thirst - Luigi Cherubini, arr. Hal H. Hopson
          Guest Chancel Choir Director: Christina Conn; Guest Organist: Ellie Thomas

14. 07-22-2012 - ? (Summer Choir, title not in Bulletin)
15. 05-20-2012 - Rain Down - Jaime Cortez
          soprano: Christina Conn
    05-13-2012
16. 05-06-2012 - Ain't that Good News - trad. spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan, ed. John Purifoy (p. 3 "Ain't that Good News" songbook)
17. 04-29-2012 - My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me - words: W.C. Martin, music: Charles H. Gabriel, arr. J. Jefferson Cleveland & Verolga Nix (#69 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
18. 04-22-2012 - Dear God - Daniel Kallman, text: Herbert Brokering
    04-15-2012
19. 04-08-2012 - This Joyful Eastertide - Alec Wyton
          Benediction - The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Peter C. Lutkin
20. 04-01-2012 - The Potter's Field - William Beckstrand, Halgrimur Petursson, Gracia Grindal
          soprano saxophone: Mitchell Borchardt
21. 03-25-2012 - Requiem - Gabriel Faure
          soprano: Christina Conn; baritone: Jon Westbrook
22. 03-18-2012 - Brother James's Air - arr. C. Armstrong Gibbs
          Prayer Response - Hear Thou Our Prayer, O Lord - arr. Peter D. Tkach
23. 03-11-2012 - O Dearest Friend - Kenneth T. Kosche
          viola: Laura Rooney
24. 03-04-2012 - Come All Who Thirst - Luigi Cherubini, arr. Hal H. Hopson
25. 02-26-2012 - As Pants the Hart (Deer) - Jonathan Adams
          Prayer Response - Hear Thou Our Prayer, O Lord - arr. Peter D. Tkach
26. 02-19-2012 - Lord, Don't Move This Mountain - Mahalia Jackson, Doris Akers
27. 02-12-2012 - Dear Lord and Father - C. Hubert H. Parry
          Benediction - A Gaelic Benediction - Jerry A. Ulrich
    02-05-2012
28. 01-29-2012 - How Can I Keep From Singing? - trad., arr. Jeffrey Honore
    01-22-2012
29. 01-15-2012 - Bow Down Low - arr. David Bridges
          Prayer Response - Hear Thou Our Prayer, O Lord - arr. Peter D. Tkach
          Guest Director, organ: Bridget Duffy
    01-08-2012

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2011
1. 12-11-2011 Lord of the Dance - arr. Sir David Valentine Willcocks (#31, p.138 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
         The Cherry Tree Carol - arr. Sir David Valentine Willcocks (#46, p.200 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
         Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - arr. Michael Praetorius (#50, p.210 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
2. 12-04-2011 - Savior of the Nations, Come - arr. Robert Benson, music: Ambrose of Milan & Martin Luther
         Benediction - Dismissal Sentence "May the Grace of Christ" - Dale Wood (p. 9, #10, "Affirmations for Worship")
3. 11-27-2011 - Prepare Ye - Marc A. Robinson
         with tenor: Jonathan Del Ray; percussion: Jonathan Gibson, Max Bossert, Zoe Bossert
         Benediction - Dismissal Sentence "May the Grace of Christ" - Dale Wood (p. 9, #10, "Affirmations for Worship")
4. 11-20-2011 - Come, Ye Thankful People, Come - arr. (setting) Joel Raney, music: George J. Elvey
         Benediction - The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Peter C. Lutkin
5. 11-13-2011 - Shall We Gather at the River / Deep River - arr. (setting by) John Carter, based on Hanson Place by Robert Lowry (1864), and Deep River, trad.
6. 11-06-2011 - Day by Day - arr. Bradley Ellingboe, music:Oskar Ahnfelt, text: Carolina Sandell Berg, trans. Robert Leaf
   10-30-2011 - no anthem (2nd Servapalooza)
7. 10-23-2011 - Give Me a Clean Heart - Margaret J. Douroux, arr. John Helgen
8. 10-16-2011 - Go Down, Moses (#663 "Chalice Hymnal") - African-American Spiritual
         Benediction - Go in Peace and the Peace of God - Kenneth E. White, words: Barber L. Waters (#445 "Chalice Hymnal")
9. 10-09-2011 - Glorious Forever - Sergei Rachmaninoff, from the Russian of Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov, trans. Nathan Haskell Dole
         misspelled in the music Nikolai Aleksyevitch Nekrasof
10. 10-02-2011 - Amazing Grace - John Newton, arr. Katherine K. Davis
11. 09-25-2011 - Ever With Me - Gwyneth Walker
12. 09-18-2011 - Blest Are They Whose Spirits Long - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
13. 09-11-2011 - Peace Song with We Shall Overcome - Greg Gilpin

14. 07-24-2011 - It Is Well With My Soul - Horatio G. Spafford 1828-1888, words: P.P. Bliss 1838-1876 (#20 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
          Steal Away - trad. (#134 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
15. 07-17-2011 - His Eye Is on the Sparrow - Charles H. Gabriel, words: Civilla D. Martin (#33 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
          Standin' in the Need of Prayer - trad. (#110 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
16. 07-10-2011 - My Lord! What a Morning - trad., harmonies: Verolga Nix 1933- (#145 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
          Love Lifted Me - James Rowe 1865-1933, words: Howard E. Smith 1863-1918 (#71 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
17. 05-22-2011 - Happy in the Lord - arr. Alice Parker
18. 05-15-2011 - Christ Hath a Garden - Gerald Near
          Benediction - A Gaelic Benediction - Jerry A. Ulrich, with the Faith in Motion Choir
19. 05-08-2011 - So Like the Wind ... - John Harmon
          piano: Bridget Duffy
    05-01-2011 - no anthem
    04-24-2011
    04-17-2011
20. 04-10-2011 - St. Teresa's Bookmark - Edward Tyler, words: St. Teresa of Avila, translation: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
21. 04-03-2011 - When Jesus Wept - William Billings
22. 03-27-2011 - Awake My Heart - Jane M. Marshall, words: Paulus Gerhardt, 1647, translated: Winfred Douglas
23. 03-20-2011 - Sheep May Safely Graze - Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Katherine K. Davis
24. 03-13-2011 - Blessed Quietness - W.S. Marshall, words: Marie P. Ferguson, arr. J. Jefferson Cleveland, Verolga Nix (#206 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
25. 03-06-2011 - To Thee We Sing - arr. Peter D. Tkach "from the Liturgy of the Russian Church"
26. 02-27-2011 - May the Peace of the Lord - Douglas E. Wagner
          with the Handbell Choir
27. 02-20-2011 - God is a God - arr. Verolga Nix (#140 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
28. 02-13-2011 - Elijah Rock - arr. Jester Hairston
    02-06-2011 - no anthem
29. 01-30-2011 - Canon of Praise - Johann Pachelbel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
30. 01-23-2011 - Sweet Hour of Prayer - William W. Walford, William B. Bradbury, arr. Larry Beebe
31. 01-16-2011 - No Hands But Yours - J. Jerome Williams
32. 01-09-2011 - Winter Carol - Austin C. Lovelace
33. 01-02-2011 - Emmanuel - God With Us - arr. Robert Young
          I. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
          II. The Song of Mary - Magnificat
          (Rescheduled from 12-12-2010 - Snow Day)

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2010
12-26-2010 - no anthem
1. 12-24-2010 - Incarnate Love - Christina Rosetti, Robert Young
         In the Bleak Midwinter - Harold Darke, words: Christina Rossetti (#40, p.174 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
   12-19-2010 - no anthem
   12-12-2010 - Snow Day, Church canceled
2. 12-05-2010 - There Shall a Star From Jacob Shine - arr. Joy Patterson
3. 11-28-2010 - Come, Jesus, Holy Son of God - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
   11-21-2010 - no anthem
4. 11-14-2010 - Praise to the Lord, The Almighty - Mark Hayes
5. 11-07-2010 - The Lone, Wild Bird - Graham
6. 10-31-2010 - But the Lord is Mindful of His Own - Felix Mendelssohn
7. 10-24-2010 - I Will Sing With the Spirit - John Rutter
8. 10-17-2010 - With a Voice of Singing - Martin Shaw
   10-10-2010 - no anthem (Together Sunday / 1st Servapalooza) **
9. 10-03-2010 - Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying - Ken Medema
10. 09-26-2010 - The Morning Trumpet - B.F. White, arr. Robert Wetzler
          trumpet: Kristin Masarik
11. 09-19-2010 - Carry Me Home - arr. Jean Anne Shafferman
12. 09-12-2010 - Thanks Be To Thee - George Friedrich Handel

13. 05-23-2010 - Pentecost Hymn - Edvard Grieg, arr. Bradley Ellingboe
14. 05-16-2010 - I Want Jesus to Walk With Me - African-American Spiritual, arr. Lloyd Larson
          Guest Director: Christina Conn
15. 05-09-2010 - Canon of Praise - Johann Pachelbel, arr. Hal H. Hopson **
          Guest Director: Christina Conn; organ: Bridget Duffy
16. 05-02-2010 - The Gift of Love - arr. Hal H. Hopson **
17. 04-25-2010 - Come, You Who Are Filled - Gwen McLeod Hall **
          piano: Bridget Duffy; oboe: Emily Helvering
18. 04-18-2010 - For the Beauty of the Earth - arr. Gary Fry **
          with the Angel and Handbell Choirs, Ensemble Director: Christina Conn
    04-11-2010 - no anthem **
19. 04-04-2010 - An Easter Hodie - Donald Hustad, words: Timothy Dudley-Smith
          trumpets: Lisa Zemlock, Matt Key; baritone saxophone: Ron Olson; trombone: Brian Key
    03-28-2010 - no anthem **
20. 03-21-2010 - Choral Sermon **
          Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley (#211 "Chalice Hymnal") - American Spiritual, arr. Bill Thomas
          Sometimes I Feel - Spiritual, arr. Alice Parker, Robert Shaw
          At the Cry of the First Bird - Grant Fletcher, Ancient Irish Text
          The Seven Last Words - John Harmon
          God So Loved the World - Sir John Stainer
21. 03-14-2010 - Awake My Heart - Jane M. Marshall, words: Paulus Gerhardt, 1647, translated: Winfred Douglas
22. 03-07-2010 - We Will Lay Our Burden Down - John L. Bell, arr. John Ferguson
          Guest Director: Christina Conn; flute: James Grine; baritone soloist: Bob Haase
23. 02-28-2010 - The Lone, Wild Bird - A Southern Folk Tune, arr. David N. Johnson **
24. 02-21-2010 - Alleluia - Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Bradley Nelson **
          with Faith in Motion Choir (Director: Missy Allen)
25. 02-14-2010 - If Ye Love Me - Thomas Tallis, ed. Christopher Johns **
26. 02-07-2010 - Lord, I Want to Be a Christian - trad. spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan [.FCC]FCC_PAST_SERMONS_0004.SHTML
27. 01-31-2010 - Is Any Afflicted? - William Billings **
28. 01-24-2010 - There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob - Felix Mendelssohn **
29. 01-17-2010 - I Want Jesus to Walk With Me - African-American Spiritual, arr. Lloyd Larson **
30. 01-10-2010 - Standin' in the Need of Prayer - trad. ** (#110 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
          Guest Director, organ: Laurel Sanders
31. 01-03-2010 - The Morning Trumpet - B.F. White, arr. Robert Wetzler **
          trumpet: Mary Thornton

    2005-2009

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