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Favorite “Three Kings” repertoire suggested by members of the Choralist. These are, of course, appropriate for the entire Christmas season, but particularly apt for “12th Night” or Epiphany programs (Jan 5th & 6th).

• “Ab Oriente Venerunt Magi” - Jacob Handl (1550-1591)
• “Bethlehem Down” - Peter Warlock
• “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
• “Here is the Little Door (from “Three Carol-Anthems”)” - Herbert Howells
• “Kings Came Riding” - Brian Holmes
• “La Marche des Rois” [SSA] - Ron Jeffers
• “Magi videntes stellam” - Giuseppe Mignemi
• “O Holy Night” - Adolphe Adam
• “O-er the Hill and O’er the Vale” - Antony Baldwin
• “Saw You Never in the Twilight: An Epiphany Carol” - Tom Porter
• “The Ballad of Befana” - Kirke Mechem
• “The Brown King” - Margaret Bonds
• “Three Kings” - Healey Willan
• “The Three Kings” - Paul Ayres
• “The Wonder Thing” (SSA) - John Jacob Niles
• “The Three Kings” - Peter Cornelius
• “Twelfth Night - Op. 42, No. 1” - Samuel Barber
• “Vizkereszt” [Epiphany]  (SSA) - Zoltan Kodaly
• “Vidimus Stellam Ejus” (TTB) - Felix Mendelssohn
• “We Three Kings”- arr. Dave Brubeck

Parts of larger works: 

• Shepherd’s Chorus From Amahl And The Night Visitors - Menotti
• “Say Where Is He” (Three Kings trio) & “There Shall a Star From Jacob Come Forth” (SATB) from Christus - Mendelssohn
• The Three Kings? [cantata] - Anders Ohrwall
• “The Queens Came Late” from Daniel Pinkham’s “Manger Scenes”