Christmas Eve Service music is available on CD.

A music CD of last year's Church of the Brethren Christmas Eve service broadcast on CBS-TV is now available from Brethren Press. DVD and video versions of the service are also available, as well as a video dubbed in Spanish.

The music for the service was coordinated by Shawn Kirchner, minister of music at the La Verne (Calif.) Church of the Brethren. The CD also features soloists Ryan Harrison and Kim Simmons, the Juniata College Concert Choir, a children's ensemble from congregations in Indiana, and instrumentalists from across the Church of the Brethren. It was taped at Nicarry Chapel at Bethany Theological Seminary.

The 11 tracks include "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" with a handbells solo; Kirchner's arrangements of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" and "Away in a Manger"; "Santo" from "St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass," sung by the Juniata choir with composer Glenn McClure on the steel drums; and other traditional and contemporary Christmas music.

Order the music CD for $14.95 plus shipping and handling; call 800-441-3712.

Source: 12/21/2005 Newsline
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