Programme 1944 – Messiah

HASTINGS COMBINED CHURCH
CHOIRS

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE
of Excerpts from the
“MESSIAH”
(Handel)

at the
HASTINGS METHODIST CHURCH
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9th, 1944,

Commencing 8 p.m.

Soloists –
Soprano:  MRS. ULRIC WILLIAMS
Contralto:  MRS. H. B. POPPELWELL
Tenor:  MR. E.G. STEVENSON
Baritone:  MR. DUDLEY HAWTHORNE

Chairman – REV. R. B. TINSLEY
Organist – MISS E. NAPIER
Conductor – MR. W. S. EASTWOOD

NATIONAL ANTHEM

PRAYER

Recit.   “Comfort Ye. My People”
Air   “Ev’ry Valley Shall be Exalted”
Chorus   “And the Glory”
Recit.   “Thus Saith the Lord”
Air   “But Who May Abide”
Recit. –   “Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive”
Air and Chorus,   “O Thou That Tellest”
Recit.   “For Behold, Darkness”
Air   “The People That Walked”
Chorus   “For Unto Us”
Pastoral Symphony   Organist
Recit.   “There Were Shepherds”
“And Lo, the Angel of the Lord”
“And the Angel Said Unto Them”
“And Suddenly”
Chorus   “Glory to God”
Air   “Rejoice Greatly”
Recit.  “Then Shall the Eyes”
Air   “Come Unto Him”
HYMN   “While Shepherds Watched”

OFFERTORY

Chorus   “Behold the Lamb of God”
Air   “He was Despised”
Chorus –    “Surely, He Hath Borne our Griefs”
Chorus   “All We Like Sheep”
Recit.   “Thy Rebuke”
Air   “Behold, and See”
Recit.   “He Was Cut Off”
Air   “But Thou Didst Not Leave”
Chorus   “Lift Up Your Heads”
Air   “How Beautiful Are the Feet”
Air   “Why Do the Nations”
Recit.   “He That Dwelleth in Heaven”
Air   “Thou Shalt Break Them”
Chorus   “Since By Man Came Death”
“By Man Came Also”
Chorus   “For as in Adam All Die”
“Even so in Christ”
Air –   “I Know that My Redeemer Liveth”
Recit.   “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery”
Air   “The Trumpet Shall Sound”
Chorus   “Worthy is the Lamb”
Chorus   “Hallelujah”

CLOSING HYMN   “Adeste Fideles”

BENEDICTION