We wish you and your loved ones health and happiness this holiday season.

In this unique year, we are pleased to offer a collection of new recordings featuring The Chapel Singers; Zachary Schurman ’22, assistant Chapel organist; Ellen Dickinson, college carillonneur; and Christopher Houlihan, college organist and director of Chapel music. Click on the links below to hear each piece.

We also have released a recording of the 2019 Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols, which featured carols by women composers and poets and lessons read by Trinity women. The event honored “Women at the Summit: 50 Years of Coeducation at Trinity College.” We hope you’ll enjoy revisiting this program or hearing it for the first time.

Wishing you peace,
Trinity College Chapel

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Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)

arr. David Willcocks (1919–2015)
sung by The Chapel Singers
Zachary Schurman ’22, organ
Christopher Houlihan, director

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Angels from the Realms of Glory

arr. Reginald Jacques (1894–1969)
sung by The Chapel Singers
Christopher Houlihan, director

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A Child This Day Is Born

by Robert Edward Smith (b. 1946),
Trinity College Chapel Composer-in-Residence
sung by The Chapel Singers
Christopher Houlihan, organist and director

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Variations sur un Noël, op. 20

Marcel Dupré (1886–1971),
Zachary Schurman ’22, organ

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Noël: A French Carol Suite

Selected and arranged for carillon by Ellen Dickinson, college carillonneur, including ‘Ding, Dong, Merrily on High,’ ‘Pat-a-Pan,’ ‘Bring a Torch,’ ‘Tu-re-lu-re-lu,’ ‘Noël Nouvelet,’ ‘Angels from the Realms of Glory,’ ‘Sing Lullaby,’ ‘Here ‘mid the Ass and Oxen Mild,’ ‘What is this Lovely Fragrance,’ ‘Masters in this Hall,’ and ‘He is Born.’

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Love Came Down at Christmas

Recorded for Trinity College Chapel virtual service,
Sunday, December 13, 2020.
Words by Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), melody from Petrie Collection of Irish Melodies, Part II, 1902; harm. David Evans (1874–1948)
featuring Gwen Sadie ’21, Ayana Tabo ’23, Julianne Freeman ’22, Jenny Conant ’22, Grace Sanko ’23, David Marottolo ’21, Zachary Schurman ’22, Kyle Fields ’21