LSM 2025 Musical Advent Calendar | Day 1

LSM is pleased to present the 2025 Musical Advent Calendar
Day 1 | Sunday, November 30

People, Look East!
French carol, arr. Zebulon M. Highben (b. 1979)

Text:
People, look east. The time is near of the crowning of the year.
Make your house fair as you are able, Trim the hearth and set the table.
People, look east, and sing today: Love, the Guest, is on the way.
Furrows, be glad. Though earth is bare, one more seed is planted there.
Give up your strength the seed to nourish, that in course the flow’r may flourish.
People, look east, and sing today: Love, the Rose, is on the way.
Stars, keep the watch. When night is dim, one more light the bowl shall brim,
Shining beyond the frosty weather, bright as sun and moon together.
People, look east, and sing today: Love, the Star, is on the way.
Angels announce with shouts of mirth him who brings new life to earth.
Set ev’ry peak and valley humming with the word, the Lord is coming.
People, look east, and sing today: Love the Lord, is on the way.
–Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)

LSM Festival Choir
Austin Smith, oboe
Edward Dunlap, percussion
LSM Handbell Ensemble
Dr. Shannon Gravelle, conductor

Excerpted from the Festival Choir Concert & Evening Prayer on Friday, July 18, 2025

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