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Comfort and Joy
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
No matter how you celebrate the Holidays, one thing is certain: you will sing. The season is alive with music, sacred and secular, sentimental and silly, simple and spectacular. You can't help singing along even if you don't let anyone else listen.
This recording will add to your holiday repertoire. You'll find your favorite seasonal music, sung as only the Turtle Creek Chorale and special guests, The Women's Chorus of Dallas, can sing it. The beauty of "Ave Maria," The simplicity of "Silent Night," and of course, many familar songs such as "Jingle Bells," "Auld Lang Syne" and "Silver Bells" - with the choral twist you expect from us.
"Comfort and Joy" is our way of saying Happy Holidays. We invite you to sing along.
REPERTOIRE
1. Masters In This Hall (3:10)
Traditional English Carol
David Maddux - Arrangement
2. Do You Hear What I Hear (3:01)
Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne - Words
Harry Simeone - Arrangement
© 1967, Regent Music Corporations
Shawnee Press, Selling Agent / Arr
3. Silver Bells (3:24)
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans - Words and Music
David Maddux - Arrangement
© Paramount Music Co.
4. Angels We Have Heard On High (2:21)
Felix Mendelsson - Words and Music
Buryl Red - Arrangement
5. All Ye of Gentle Spirit (4:10)
Dawayne Handley - Words and Music
© 1991 Dawayne Handley
6. Variation on Jingle Bells (4:10)
Jessica House - Soloist
John Pierpont - Words and Music
Mark Hayes - Arrangement
© 2000 Shawnee Press
7. Santa Claus is Coming to Town (2:51)
Janey Hall - Vocals
J.F. Coots - Words and Music
Anne Albritton - Arrangement
© Warner Bros. Music, Inc.
8. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (3:06)
Charles Wesley - Words
Dennis Allen / Felix Mendelssohn - Music
Dennis Allen - Arrangement
© 1999 By Pilot Point Music
Administered by the Copyright
Company, 40 Music Square East
Nashville, TN 37203
9. If Not At Christmas (4:09)
William MacDuff - Words
Scott Henderson - Music
© 2000 Yelton Rhodes Music Publishers
10. The King of Us All / What Child is This? (2:45)
Jill Gallina - Arr/Original Words/Music
© 2000, Harold Flammer Music
A Division of Shawnee Press, Inc.
"What Child is This?"
TRADITIONAL ENGLISH MELODY
William C. Dix - Words
11. On A Starlit Night / Silent Night (2:19)
Jill Gallina - Arr/Original Words / Music
© 1994, Shawnee Press Inc.
"Silent Night"
Franz Gruber - Words/Music
12. Ave Maria (3:20)
J.S. Bach / Charles Gounaud - Words/Music
Anne Albritton - Arrangement
13. Song of the Faithful / O Come All Ye Faithful / Dona Nobis Pacem (2:12)
Jill Gallina - Arr/Original Melody
© 1996, Shawnee Press Inc.
14. Little Star / The First Noel (2:36)
Jill Gallina - Arr/Original Words/Music
© 1999, Shawnee Press Inc.
"The First Noel"
17th CENTURY ENGLISH CAROL
15. An Angel Gets Its Wings (4:01)
Joel Ihms, Kirk Bradford, Craig Gregory - Trio
Robert Irving - Words/Music
Danny Ray - Arrangement
16. Peace, Peace (2:54)
Rick and Sylvia Powell - Words / Music
© 1969, 1973 Matterhorn Music
17. Auld Lang Syne (2:28)
TRADITIONAL
Anne Albritton - Arrangement
PRODUCTION NOTES
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Tim Seelig
PRODUCER
Craig Gregory
CHORUS TRACKING
March 2, 2001
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center
Craig Penrod Productions
Michael Vazquez - Engineer
Jai Hutcherson, Sound Matters, Mastering and Vocal Tracking
Crystal Clear Sound, Vocal and Instrumental Tracking
Shawn Northcutt, Cover Photography and Design
Kenneth McBryde, Booklet Copy
INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL TRACKING / MIXING
Crystal Clear Sound
Michael Vazquez - Engineer
Kent Stump - Engineer
Jai Hutcherson Sound Matters - Mastering
ART DIRECTION
Lois Weaver Design
PHOTOGRAPHY AND COVER CREATIVE
Shawn Northcutt Photography
COVER MODEL
David Welek
RESOUNDING JOY HANDBELL CHOIR
CATHEDRAL OF HOPE
Carol Cappa - Director
Howard Atkinson
Keri Disney
Judy Huemmer
John Lemmon
Jim Lovell
Chris Olsen
Jimmy Pockrus
Randy Rhodes
Mark Schuman
Corey Spence
Bob Watchorn
Lynn Williams
MUSICIANS
Antoine Spencer - Piano
Lamar Sims - Piano
Buddy Shanahan - Synthesizer and B3 Organ
Ellen Ritscher - Harp
Ellen kainer - Flute
Michael Sullivan - Flute / Alto Flute
Dennis Brickman - Oboe / English Horn
Scott Uhrig - String Bass
JD Meyer - String Bass
Drew Lang - Trap / Percussion
Michael McNicholas - Tympani / Percussion
