The 17th Kentucky Christmas Singing (with Southern Harmony)

Mt. Zion Methodist Church
Mercer County, Kentucky
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Jim Thobaben called the singing to order at 3:00 p.m., welcoming visitors and offering his sympathies to Ron Pen (a long-time supporter of this singing who suffered, without injury, a serious car accident while on the way to the church and was necessarily detained). Daniel Gibbens-Rickman gave the opening prayer. Rafi Finkel taught a brief singing school and led 73b (SH), Arlington.
Song selections were from The Sacred Harp, 1991 edition and The Southern Harmony, 1854 facsimile, 1987 UofK reprint.

34b (SH), St. Thomas - Tim Gregg
47t (SH), Primrose - Donna Kwon
   “Epitaph” - Randy Webber (his own composition)
59 (SH), Holy Manna - Gabrielle Manion
112 (SH), The Last Words of Copernicus - Tim Morton
313b (SH), Cobb - Mary Brinkman
223 (SH), Portuguese Hymn - Don Waggener
186 (SH), Sherburne - Pearl Marshall
515 (SH), Federal Street - Rafi Finkel
276t (SoH), Dunlap's Creek - Erin Fulton
457 (SH), Wayfaring Stranger - Mary Brinkman
384 (SH), Panting for Heaven - Tim Morton
83 (SoH), Thorny Desert - Tim Gregg
503 (SH), Lloyd - Gabrielle Manion
225b (SH), Christmas Anthem - Don Waggener and Erin Fulton
268 (SH), David's Lamentation - Daniel Gibbens-Rickman and Bonnie Tsai and Tim Morton

RECESS

16 (SoH), Star in the East - Marcie Thobaben and Kathleen Alpin
73t (SH), Cusseta - Donna Kwon
454 (SH), The Better Land - Pearl Marshall
102 (SH), Fulfillment - Daisy Zhao and Randy Webber
66 (SH), Jordan (First) - Rafi Finkel
147t (SH), Boylston - Mary Brinkman
128 (SH), The Promised Land - Lizzie Guthrie and Erin Fulton
47b (SH), Idumea - Graham Hoggstock-Mattson and Rafi Finkel
35b (SoH), Parting Friends - Erin Fulton
227 (SH), Ode on Life's Journey - Tim Morton
310 (SoH), The Shepherd's Star - Randy Webber
410t (SH), The Dying Californian - Pearl Marshall

James Thobaben offered the closing prayer and led 267 (SH), Parting Friends (First), the class took the parting hand. There were eighteen leaders among a class of twenty-five registered singers, representing Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The class was dismissed to a soup supper prepared by the church members.

Chair—James Thobaben; Vice Chair—Donna Kwon; Secretary—Erin Fulton.