[Magdalen] That Lutheran music!

[Joseph Cirou]

Yes, we sang it today. The Liturgical Baptist church that I played last
week has programmed it as an anthem for their Advent lessons and carols on
Gaudete Sunday. The hymn that you sent with Sissel singing is on the next
page of LBW

Joe

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> So today I went to church expecting the Advent music I'm more or less
> familiar with in both Episcopal and Lutheran churches of my acquaintance.
> Boy, was I in for a shock! Opening hymn: Awake, Awake, and Greet the New
> Morn; sermon hymn: My Lord, What a Morning, done with a real gospel sound
> to it; closing hymn: Soon and Very Soon, really rocking the house. This
> church continues to surprise me. I did get a bit of a giggle at communion,
> though. The choir usually sings two or three hymns while all that is going
> on, and I tend to follow along, sometimes singing and sometimes meditating
> on the words. The first two of these today were familiar to me and I didn't
> need to look for them in the hymnal, but the number of the third was wrong
> in the bulletin and when I looked at it, not only was the music not what I
> was hearing, neither were the words. I realized the words were "Rejoice,
> Rejoice, Believers", but the tune was sure one I'd never heard...very
> Scandinavian and if I may say so, a wee bit bouncy. I liked it, though. (I
> looked it up and it's a Swedish folk tune) I think it may be an interesting
> Advent!
>