"Auld Lang Syne" -

America Holiday Songs and Carols
(AMRC CD 0023)

Father Robert Kemp (1820-1897)
Conductor of the "Old Folks Concerts"
in the 19th century

Music celebrating American holidays

for the entire year

performed in live concerts

and

studio recordings

 

+ = First Recording

 

New Year's Day

1. +A NEW YEAR'S PRAYER - poem by Sister R. Mildred Barker, 1921/
music by Roger Lee Hall

Soloists: Susan Papinsick, Jim Miller
The Canterbury Singers, Kathryn Southworth, Director

This title is available on the AMRC CD:

 

Martin Luther King Day

2. Go Down, Moses - Afro-American Spiritual, ca. 1862

Lincoln's Birthday

3. LINCOLN AND LIBERTY - 1860 Campaign Song

 

Both songs (Nos. 2-3) available on:

 

 

Washington's Birthday

4. A TOAST -Tribute song to George Washington by Francis Hopkinson, 1778

Music from eras of Washington and Lincoln -- click here

 

Easter Sunday

5. +Savior, Like A Shephard Lead Us from EASTER CONCERT - Edwin A. Jones, 1890

6. +EASTER CAROL - Charles E. Ives, 1892 -

 

Memorial Day (Decoration Day)

7. +PEACE (Roger Lee Hall, 1981)

Soloist: Karen Pritchard
Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus
Roger Hall, Conductor

Indepedence Day (Fourth of July)

8. +Father and I Went Down To Camp (YANKEE DOODLE)
- arranged by William A. Fisher

9. CHESTER - William Billings, 1778/1786

Labor Day

10. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER - 19th century choral arrangement

 

 

Veterans Day

11. +SONG OF THE MARCHING MEN - Henry K. Hadley, 1919

 

 

Thanksgiving Day

Picture from Old Folks Concert in 1856


12. +PILGRIM THANKSGIVING (with reading from Of Plymoth Plantation,
1620-1647) and PSALM 100

13. WE GATHER TOGETHER (Prayer of Thanksgiving, 1894)


Christmas

14. CAROL - Supply Belcher, 1794

15. +NEW BETHLEHEM - Edward French, 1799

16. A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Charles E. Ives, 1894

17. NOEL (Chorale) - George W. Chadwick, 1909

18. +SHEPHERDS CAROL - arranged by Roger Lee Hall, 1978

19. SILENT NIGHT (First American version by Rev. John Freeman Young, 1859)

 

 

New Year's Eve

20. + SONG OF THE OLD FOLKS (tune: AULD LANG SYNE)
American version of the song by Albert Laighton, 1855

This song was sung in a special concert celebrating the 350th anniversary

of the City of Boston, Massachusetts in 1980

by the Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus, conducted by Roger Hall

Listen to the concert performance of the first verse for "Song of the Old Folks" -- click here

Read about the 19th century version from Father Kemp's Old Folks Concert Tunes

by Roger Lee Hall on the "We're History" website -

Click this picture of the music --

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Auld Lang Syne" -
American Holiday Songs and Carols
(AMRC CD 0023)
Compiled by Roger Hall

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