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Woodberry Forest Holds Christmas Candlelight Service
Woodberry Forest School celebrated Christmas with a traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.*
Voice and instrumental performances by the Woodberry Forest Choirs, under the direction of Wallace Hornady, and the Woodberry Forest String and Brass Ensembles, conducted by Paul Kim and Tim Stakem, respectively, filled St. Andrew's Chapel. Guest organist Paul Brockman '08 also provided music during the ceremony. The ceremony included the Passing of the Light and the congregation's singing by candlelight of Silent Night.
Readers for nine lessons:
Austin Liss, Jack Pidgeon, Nathan Woods, Clint Trenkelbach, Sam Funkhouser, Thomas Parker, Paul Huber, Eric Chafin, and Dr. Dennis Campbell
Ushers for the service:
KG Gaskins, Alex Hale, Jack Laub, Pierce Lee, Danny Martinez, and Lance Munger
Acolytes:
Chris Cirenza, Kristof-Pierre Cummings, Will Sutherland, and Yonathan Tarekegne
*The service of Lessons and Carols, which originated in Cornwall, England, in 1880, is now celebrated throughout the world, perhaps most famously at King's College, Cambridge. The nine Lessons comprise scripture passages followed by one to three appropriate carols sung by the choir and/or congregation.
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Voice and instrumental performances by the Woodberry Forest Choirs, under the direction of Wallace Hornady, and the Woodberry Forest String and Brass Ensembles, conducted by Paul Kim and Tim Stakem, respectively, filled St. Andrew's Chapel. Guest organist Paul Brockman '08 also provided music during the ceremony. The ceremony included the Passing of the Light and the congregation's singing by candlelight of Silent Night.
Readers for nine lessons:
Austin Liss, Jack Pidgeon, Nathan Woods, Clint Trenkelbach, Sam Funkhouser, Thomas Parker, Paul Huber, Eric Chafin, and Dr. Dennis Campbell
Ushers for the service:
KG Gaskins, Alex Hale, Jack Laub, Pierce Lee, Danny Martinez, and Lance Munger
Acolytes:
Chris Cirenza, Kristof-Pierre Cummings, Will Sutherland, and Yonathan Tarekegne
*The service of Lessons and Carols, which originated in Cornwall, England, in 1880, is now celebrated throughout the world, perhaps most famously at King's College, Cambridge. The nine Lessons comprise scripture passages followed by one to three appropriate carols sung by the choir and/or congregation.
Photography by Laura Sutherland
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