"O Come, All Ye Faithful" was written in 1987 as the processional hymn for the Christmas Eve service at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Fairfield, Connecticut.
St. Timothy's was a small, but affluent, country parish (the CEO of IBM was a former vestry warden) and many women of the congregation attended the midnight service in ball gowns, their husbands accompanying them in white tie and tails. Diana Erdmann, a lyric soprano who had appeared with a number of opera companies, was a member of the parish and the arrangement, with its newly composed fourth verse and the following descant, were written for her and the quiet, but luxurious, service.
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released December 10, 2013
Raphael Bundage - conductor
Elizabeth Linton - soprano
MTSU Scola Cantorum
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