Act 2

Away in a Manger

Arr. Keith McCauley

Directed by Cara Stewart

Performed by Chorale

Featuring Kambria Belnap, Sean Mahan, Grizzly Musser

Away in a manger
No crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head
The stars in the heavens
Looked down where He lay
The little Lord Jesus
Asleep on the hay

The cattle are lowing
The Baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes
I love You, Lord Jesus
Look down from the sky
And stay by my side
Until morning is nigh

Be near me, Lord Jesus
I ask You to stay
Close by me forever
And love me I pray
Bless all the dear children
In Your tender care
And take us to heaven
To live with You there

Perfect Christmas Night

From the motion picture HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000)

Arr. Greg Gilpin

Directed by Annie Roberts

Performed by Chorale

Featuring Elizabeth Alfaro, Ada Higgins, Afton Ray, Mikayla Reidhead, Eliza Steen, George Walker

Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah bop

I’ve got the Christmas tree
I’ve got the memories
I’ve got the box of decorations
I’ve got the tinsel strung
The mistletoe’s been hung
I’ve got the means of celebration
I’ve got the lights down low
The skies are dreaming snow
I’ve got the Yule logs burning bright
And by that Christmas tree
I’ve got you here with me
I’ve got the perfect Christmas Night

Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop
I’ve got the box of dreams
All with the Christmas Theme
But tonight I won’t be sleeping
I’ve got Bing Crosby on
Have all my troubles gone
With the spirit I’ve been keeping
I’ve got the presents wrapped
I’ve got the boxes stacked
I put up those Christmas Lights
All around the tree
Like it all should be
I’ve got the perfect Christmas Night

Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah

I’ve got the Christmas tree
I’ve got the memories
I’ve got the box of decorations
I’ve got the tinsel strung
The mistletoe’s been hung
I’ve got the means of celebration
I’ve got the lights down low
The skies are dreaming snow
I’ve got the Yule log burning bright
Beside the Christmas tree
I’ve got you here with me
I’ve got the perfect Christmas Night
And by the Christmas tree
I’ve got you here with me
I’ve got the perfect Christmas Night

Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Shoo-bie doo-wah bop bop she doo-wah
Wa-wa-waaah

Who Would Imagine a King?

From the motion picture THE PREACHER’S WIFE (1996)

APB Whitney Houston, Arr. Keith McCauley

Directed by Krista Carroll

Jonathan Belnap, Ainsley Mahan, Annie Meck

Mommies and daddies always believe
That their little angels are special indeed
And you could grow up to be anything
But who would imagine a king

A shepherd or teacher is what you could be
Or maybe a fisherman out on the sea
Or maybe a carpenter building things
But who would imagine a king

It was so clear when the wise men arrived
And the angels were singing your name
That the world would be different ’cause you were alive
That’s why heaven stood still to proclaim

One day an angel said quietly
That soon he would bring something special to me
And of all of the wonderful gifts he could bring

Who would imagine, who could imagine
Who would imagine a king

Introducing Eric McKirdy

Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming

Arr. Diane Bish

Eric McKirdy, organ

Somewhere in My Memory

From the motion picture HOME ALONE (1990)

Arr. Mark Hayes

Directed by Krista Carroll

Performed by Concert Choir

Featuring Phoebe Bucheli, Melody Harter, Paige Hobson

Candles in the window
Shadows painting the ceiling
Gazing at the fire glow
Feeling that gingerbread feeling

Precious moments, special people
Happy faces, I can see

Somewhere in my memory
Christmas joys all around me
Living in my memory
All of the music, all of the magic
All of the family, home here with me

Jingle Allll the Ways

Arr. Adam Podd and Matt Podd

Directed by Krista Carroll

Performed by Concert Choir

Featuring Beau Ballard, Brooke Barney, Jonathan Belnap, Briella Meikle, Nicole Olson

Sleigh Ride

Arr. Bud Caputo

Directed by Keith McCauley

Performed by the Cantus Orchestra

Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance Flowing?

Arr. Mack Wilberg

Directed by Annie Roberts

Performed by Virtuoso
Featuring, Eric McKirdy, organ

Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing
Stealing our senses all away
Never the like did come a-blowing
Shepherds, in flow’ry fields of May
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing
Stealing our senses all away

What is that light so brilliant, breaking
Here in the night across our eyes
Never so bright, the day-star waking
Started to climb the morning skies!
What is that light so brilliant, breaking
Here in the night across our eyes

Bethlehem! There in manger lying
Find your Redeemer, haste away
Run ye with eager footsteps vieing!
Worship the Savior born today
Bethlehem! There in manger lying
Find your Redeemer, haste away

Higher Love

APB Steve Winwood; Arr. Keith McCauley

Directed by Cara Stewart

Performed by Virtuoso

Featuring Jillian Andersen, Lily Hanson, Annie Walker; trio: Abigail Cox, Gracie Richards, Samantha Steen

Bring me higher love
Bring me a higher love, oh
Bring me a higher love
Where’s that higher love I keep thinking of?

Think about it, there must be a higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time
Look inside your heart, and I’ll look inside mine

Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk the line and try to see
Falling behind in what could be, oh

Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love, oh
Bring me a higher love
Where’s that higher love I keep thinking of?

Worlds are turning, and we’re just hanging on
Facing our fear, and standing out there alone
A yearning, yeah, and it’s real to me
There must be someone who’s feeling for me

Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair
We walk the line and try to see
Falling behind in what could be, oh

Bring higher love (My love)
Bring higher love, oh (Oh)
Bring higher love (My love)
Where’s that higher love I keep thinking of?

Toccata on Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella

By Keith Chapman

Eric McKirdy, organ

See Amid the Winter Snow

Arr. Dan Forrest

Directed by Brandi Cook

Performed by Concordia

Featuring Ruby Johnston

See, amid the winter’s snow,
Born for us on earth below,
See the tender Lamb appears,
Promised from eternal years.

Hail, thou ever blessed morn!
Hail, redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem.”

Lo, within a manger lies
He who built the starry skies;
He who, throned in height sublime,
sits amid the cherubim!

Sacred Infant, all divine,
What a tender love was Thine,
Thus to come from highest bliss
Down to such a world as this!

Beating of Our Hearts

Arr. Keith McCauley

Directed by Keith McCauley

Performed by Concordia

Featuring Amelia Walker and Sophie De Herdt

A pulse
A beat
Like gravity
The rhythm of our hearts is all around

A bond
A pledge
A common thread
Connects us in a unifying sound

Like the pounding of a drum
Steady spinning ’round the sun
The beating of our hearts
Echoes straight up to the stars
For all the world to hear
It never fades
Steady are you ready can you feel it
Here it comes

Oh, come together as one
Like a wave across the ocean
Like a rhythm of love when your heart’s wide open
Sound, it’s in all that we are
Feel it in the beat
Feel it in the beat of our hearts
It’s the beating of our hearts

One single moment in time
Resounding altogether, every beat aligns
So look around, and hear it loud
The echo of our hearts

Introducing Aubrey Adams-McMillan

Habanera

From CARMEN

Giacomo Puccini, Arr. Keith McCauley

Directed by Keith McCauley

Aubrey Adams-McMillan, mezzo-soprano

French:

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Que nul ne peut apprivoiser
Et c’est bien en vain qu’on l’appelle
S’il lui convient de refuser

Rien n’y fait, menace ou prière
L’un parle bien, l’autre se tait
Et c’est l’autre que je préfère
Il n’a rien dit mais il me plaît

L’amour! l’amour!
L’amour! l’amour!

L’amour est enfant de bohème
Il n’a jamais, jamais connu de loi
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime
Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi

Si tu ne m’aimes pas
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime
Mais si je t’aime
i je t’aime, prends garde à toi

L’oiseau que tu croyais surprendre
Battit de l’aile et s’envola
L’amour est loin, tu peux l’attendre
Tu ne l’attends puis il est là

Tout autour de toi vite, vite
Il vient, s’en va puis il revient
Tu crois le tenir, il t’évite
Tu crois l’éviter, il te tient

L’amour! l’amour!
L’amour! l’amour!

L’amour est enfant de bohème
Il n’a jamais, jamais connu de loi
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime
Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi

Si tu ne m’aimes pas
Si tu ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime
Mais si je t’aime
i je t’aime, prends garde à toi

English:

Love is a rebellious bird
That nobody can tame,
And you call him quite in vain
If it suits him not to come.

Nothing helps, neither threat nor prayer.
One man talks well, the other’s mum;
It’s the other one that I prefer.
He’s silent but I like his looks.

Love, love!
Love, love!

Love is a gypsy’s child,
It has never, ever, known a law;
Love me not, then I love you;
If I love you, you’d best beware!

If you don’t love me,
If you don’t love me, I love you.
But if I love you,
If I love you, you’d best beware!

The bird you thought to surprise
Bat its wing and flew away;
Love is far away, you can wait for it;
If you wait for it no more, it is there!

All around you, quickly, quickly,
It comes, goes, then it comes back!
You think to hold it, it avoids you;
You think to avoid it, it holds you!

Love, love!
Love, love!

Love is a gypsy’s child,
It has never, ever, known a law;
Love me not, then I love you;
If I love you, you’d best beware!

If you don’t love me,
If you don’t love me, I love you.
But if I love you,
If I love you, you’d best beware!

Silent Night

APB The Piano Guys

Directed by Keith McCauley

Aubrey Adams-McMillan, mezzo-soprano
Sara Watson, cello

Descant: Sailor Ballard, Lauren Burrup, Avery Chesley, Anna Gwin, Alex Herron, Kennedy Johnson, Lexi McCauley, Maylee Peterson, Hazyl Poole, Maycee Post, Violet Randall, Brittin Thomas; Backup: Finnley Ballard, Kaylee Barney, Julia Berry, Samara Bourn, Maximus Case, Blayklee Chandler, Elizabeth Collins, Dane Cook, Scarlett Edwards, Drew Gardiner, Elizabeth Hansen, Emeline Henry, Briar Huffaker, Jara Kirkham, Claire Kislig, Grant Lyon, Everett Mason, Abby McCauley, Liam McCauley, Raegyn McDonald, Kate Miller, Hallie Mills, Josh Mills, Elsa Papenfuss, Easton Post, Lisa Randall, Luke Richards, Steel Slagle, Oksana Volkov, Luke Walker

Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child
Holy Infant, so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus Lord, at Thy birth

[Segue]

Angels We Have Heard on High

Arr. Mack Wilberg

Directed by Erika McCauley

Performed by Concordia and Virtuoso

Aubrey Adams-McMillan, mezzo-soprano
Eric McKirdy, organ

Ensemble: Jillian Andersen, Paige Anderson, Cami Atwood, Aya Belnap, Tess Bollschweiler, Olivia Champlin, Talli Craig, Esther Crossley, Sofia Davis, Sophie De Herdt, Lily Hanson, Camrey Hebdon, Audrey Hessing, Ruby Johnston, Madelyn Moser, Liv Nielsen, Claire Ranstrom, Audrie Seamons, Amelia Walker, Annie Walker, Kinsley Wardle

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plain
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strain
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be?
Which inspire your heavenly song?
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?

See him in the manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise.
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Preview of Season 15

O Holy Night

Arr. Mack Wilberg

Directed by Erika McCauley

Performed by Cantus Youth Choirs

Aubrey Adams-McMillan, mezzo-soprano
Eric McKirdy, organ

O holy night the stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining
Till He appeared
And the soul felt its worth

The thrill of hope the weary world rejoices
And yonder breaks a new and glorious morn

Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
O night divine
O night when Christ was born
O night divine
O night O night divine

Truly He taught us to love one another
His law is love and His gospel is peace
Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother
And in His name
All oppression shall cease

Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we
Let all within us praise His holy name

Christ is the Lord
Oh praise His name forever
His power and glory
Evermore proclaim
His power and glory
Evermore proclaim