First Congregational Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Chancel Choir Anthems in Date Order 2015-2019

      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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Chancel Choir Anthems in Title Order - Chancel Choir Members - Master List of Musicians, Pastors, etc.

| 1980-84 - 1985-89 - 1990-94 - 1995-99 - 2000-04 - 2005-09 - 2010-14   || 2015   | 2016   | 2017   | 2018   | 2019   ||

(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 (1984-date) and Organist (1968-date)

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2017
1. 04-16-2017 - An Easter Hodie - Donald Hustad, words: Timothy Dudley-Smith
         Benediction - The Lord Bless You and Keep You - Peter C. Lutkin
2. 04-09-2017 - One Lonely Night - Joseph M. Martin
3. 04-02-2017 - God Be In My Head - Andrew Carter
4. 03-26-2017 - Offertory - John Ness Beck
5. 03-19-2017 - With Grace and Carefulness - John L. Bell
6. 03-12-2017 - Christ Hath a Garden - Gerald Near
7. 03-05-2017 - Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Alan Ridout
8. 02-26-2017 - What a Friend We Have In Jesus - arr. Harold M. Best
         Benediction - Dismissal Sentence (God Be With You) - Dale Wood (p. 11, #8, "Choral Sentences for Worship")
9. 02-19-2017 - The Lord My Shepherd Is - Austin C. Lovelace, text: Isaac Watts
10. 02-12-2017 - A Canticle of Peace - Joseph W. Clokey
11. 02-05-2017 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Johann Sebastian Bach, ed. and arr. Wallingford Riegger
          Benediction - A Gaelic Benediction - Jerry A. Ulrich
12. 01-29-2017 - As Pants the Hart (Deer) - Jonathan Adams
13. 01-22-2017 - There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob - Felix Mendelssohn
14. 01-15-2017 - No Hands But Yours - J. Jerome Williams, text: St. Teresa of Avila
             bass: James Kucksdorf
15. 01-08-2017 - The Three Kings - Peter Cornelius, trans. H.N. Bate, arr. David Willcocks

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2016
1. 12-24-2016 7:30 pm - Ding Dong Merrily on High - Charles Wood
         Still, Still, Still - Austrian Carol, arr. Norman Luboff
   12-18-2016 - no anthem
2. 12-11-2016 - The Animals of the Nativity
         The Oxen - music: Michael Head, words: Thomas Hardy
         Jesus, Our Brother, Strong and Good (The Friendly Beasts) - arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
         The Oxen - music: Richard Bullen, words: Thomas Hardy
3. 12-04-2016 - Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence - Gustav T. Holst
4. 11-27-2016 - Come, Jesus, Holy Son of God - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
         Benediction - A Gaelic Benediction - Jerry A. Ulrich
5. 11-20-2016 - Union - American Folk Hymn, arr. Daniel C. Meyer
         Benediction - Dismissal Sentence "God Be With You" - Dale Wood (p. 10, #12, "Affirmations for Worship")
6. 11-13-2016 - ? - Bulletin missing from the Church Archives
         [Note: I don't have a copy because I attended the Jazz Service at the Scott Street Church here in Ripon, with Kurt Dietrich, Dr. Steve Yeomans, Patty Darling, Mike Hale & Erik Dietrich]
7. 11-06-2016 - Come, You Who Are Filled - Gwen McLeod Hall
8. 10-30-2016 - The Church's One Foundation - lyrics: Samuel John Stone, music: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, arr. Jerry A. Ulrich
         Benediction - A Gaelic Benediction - Jerry A. Ulrich
9. 10-25-2016 - Healing River - Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff, arr. Herbert Haufrecht
10. 10-16-2016 - Order My Steps - Glenn Burleigh, arr. Jack Schrader
11. 10-09-2016 - How Can I Keep From Singing? - trad., arr. Jeffrey Honore
12. 10-02-2016 - The Call - Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Douglas E. Wagner, words: George Herbert
13. 09-25-2016 - God Be In My Head - Andrew Carter, words: Book of Hours, Sarum, 1514
14. 09-18-2016 - Blest Are They Whose Spirits Long - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
15. 09-11-2016 - The Lord is a Mighty God - Felix Mendelssohn

16. 07-31-2016 - title?, from the The "Songs of Zion" songbook (Summer Choir)

17. 05-22-2016 - Come Build a Church - Ken Medema
18. 05-15-2016 - Pentecost Hymn - Edvard Grieg, arr. Bradley Ellingboe
          Offertory anthem: I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me - African-American spiritual, arr.Bill Thomas -- guitar: Mike Ford
19. 05-08-2016 - Look at the World - John Rutter
20. 05-01-2016 - The Tree of Life - K. Lee Scott
21. 04-24-2016 - Amazing Grace - Traditional Americon melody, text: John Newton, additional words and music: Chris Tomlin, Louie Giglio, arr. Tom Fettke
22. 04-17-2016 - Dear God - Daniel Kallman, text: Herbert Brokering
23. 04-10-2016 - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - arr. Keith Hampton
    04-03-2016 - no anthem
24. 03-27-2016 - An Easter Hodie - Donald Hustad, words: Timothy Dudley-Smith
          When Mary Came With Rich Perfume - Borghild Jacobson, setting: Kenneth T. Kosche
25. 03-20-2016 - Hosanna! - Christian Gregor, arr. Roberta Bitgood
26. 03-13-2016 - Requiem - Gabriel Faure
          soprano: Christina Conn; baritone: James Kucksdorf
27. 03-06-2016 - Bow Down Low - arr. David Bridges
28. 02-28-2016 - Christ Hath a Garden - Gerald Near, text: Robert Bridges, after Isaac Watts
29. 02-21-2016 - Hear Thou Our Prayer, O Lord - Peter D. Tkach
30. 02-14-2016 - Do Not Fear, - Fred Gramann
31. 02-07-2016 - My Song Shall Be Alway of the Loving-Kindness of the Lord - Gerald Near
    01-31-2016 - no anthem, 165th Annual Meeting during the Service
32. 01-24-2016 - Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Alan Ridout, Metrical Version: John Milton
33. 01-17-2016 - God's Gonna Set This World on Fire - Moses Hogan, ed. John Purifoy (p. 26 "Ain't that Good News" songbook)
34. 01-10-2016 - Wade in the Water - trad. Afican-American spiritual, harm. Willa A. Townsend
35. 01-03-2016 - There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob - Felix Mendelssohn

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2015
12-27-2015 - no anthem
1. 12-24-2015 (Thursday. 7:30 pm) - In the Bleak Midwinter - Harold Darke, words: Christina Rossetti
   
2. 12-20-2015 - no anthem: The Christmas Pageant
3. 12-13-2015 - Once in Royal David's City - words: C.F. Alexander, music: H.J. Gauntlett, Verses 1-5 harmonized: A.H. Mann, Verse 6 arr. David Willcocks (#61, p.260 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
            boy soprano: Jedediah Larson-Poeschl;
         Gabriel to Mary Came (Angelus ad Virginem) - 14th-century Irish carol, trans. W.A.C. Pickard-Cambridge, arr. David Willcocks (#9, p.46 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
         I Wonder As I Wander - Appalachian carol, arr. John Rutter (#38, p.169 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
            baritone: Rev. Jack Seville
         There is a Flower - words: John Audelay, arr.: John Rutter (#85, p.333 "100 Carols for Choirs" songbook)
4. 12-06-2015 - O Come, Emmanuel - arr. Alice Parker
         Postlude by the Oshkosh West High School Madrigal Singers
5. 11-29-2015 - Come, Jesus, Holy Son of God - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
         Hope (An Advent Hymn) - music: Fanny L. Seville, arr. Mike Jensen, words: Emily Dickinson
6. 11-22-2015 - Thanks Be To Thee - George Friedrich Handel
7. 11-15-2015 - Come Flood This Heart of Mine - lyrics: Herb Frombach, music: David Lantz III
         piano: Bridget Duffy-Ulrich; violin: Kiera Robe; cello: Matt Abraham; soprano descant: Christina Conn,
8. 11-08-2015 - Come Build a Church - Ken Medema
9. 11-01-2015 - Lord, I Want to Be a Christian - trad. spiritual, arr.Moses Hogan, ed.John Purifoy (p. 21 "Ain't that Good News" songbook)
10. 10-25-2015 - Praise and Thanks to God - Heinrich Schutz
11. 10-18-2015 - David and Goliath - Dale Wood
          narrator: Kay Sanders; whistler: Patrick Meyer
12. 10-11-2015 - With Grace and Carefulness (Brother James's Air), Psalm 65 - arr. John L. Bell
13. 10-04-2015 - Sit Down Servant - adapted and arr. Linda Twine
14. 09-27-2015 - Blest Are They Whose Spirits Long - George Friedrich Handel, arr. Hal H. Hopson
          Guest Director, organ, piano: Pam Lane
15. 09-20-2015 - Sweet Hour of Prayer - William W. Walford, William B. Bradbury, arr. Larry Beebe
16. 09-13-2015 - As the Hart Longeth (Psalm 42) - R. Evan Copley

17. 08-02-2015 - Love Lifted Me - James Rowe, words: Howard E. Smith (Summer Choir)

18. 05-17-2015
19. 05-10-2015
20. 05-03-2015 - As Pants the Hart (Deer) - 05-03-2015
21. 04-26-2015 - Offertory - John Ness Beck
22. 04-19-2015 - The Tree of Life - K. Lee Scott
23. 04-12-2015
24. 04-05-2015 - I Have Seen Him - John Harmon
25. 03-29-2015 - One Lonely Night - Joseph M. Martin
26. 03-22-2015 - Help Us, O Lord - Aaron Copland
27. 03-15-2015 - Awake, My Heart - Jane M. Marshall
28. 03-08-2015 - Lord, I Want to Be a Christian - trad. spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan, ed. John Purifoy (p. 21 "Ain't that Good News" songbook)
29. 03-01-2015 - If God Be For Us - Clifford McCormick, based on Romans 8:31
30. 02-22-2015 - It Is Well With My Soul - Horatio G. Spafford, words: P.P. Bliss (#20 "Songs of Zion" songbook)
31. 02-15-2015 - The Lord is a Mighty God - Felix Mendelssohn
32. 02-08-2015
33. 02-01-2015
34. 01-25-2015 - Come Build a Church - Ken Medema
35. 01-18-2015 - Praise and Thanks to God - Heinrich Schutz, "Lob und Preis sei Gott" English text & edited by Mason Martens
36. 01-11-2015 - Give Me a Clean Heart - Margaret J. Douroux, arr. John Helgen
    01-04-2015 - Snowstorm, no Church service

    2010-2014

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