1. Pastores a Belen
2. It came upon the midnight clear
3. O, little town of Bethlehem
4. Bring torch, Jeanette, Isabella
5. Away in a manager
6. Wassail Song

Composer quotes:
(From a 1960's interview with Dick Bertel of WTIC Radio, Hartford, Connecticut)

Question: Let's discuss some of these other suites.

Anderson: Well, in addition to the Christmas Festival which is a big concert overture, I had the idea of making more intimate treatment of other Christmas carols; at the same time, however, I didn't just want to make medleys of them, that's the usual thing. In treating them instrumentally, I
thought I'd try to get something that would give a little more scope and be a little different. So, after thinking it over, I decided that I would make a suite of carols. Except that the one suite turned out to be three suites because of the fact that carols have a great deal of variety and it seemed that one particular carol would sound best with string orchestra, and another one would sound much better with a brass choir, and another would call for the color that you get from woodwinds; so I finally finished by writing three suites of carols, three different ones -- one is a strong orchestra, one for brass choir, and one for woodwind ensemble, and I took about 18 or 19 of these carols and divided them up and made them into the three suites and recorded.

Question: It's refreshing to hear some of this Christmas music that we don't hear.

Anderson: Well, in addition, I -have also not only taken the best known, I have also taken some of the lesser known ones; although I find year after year that many of the carols that are not, or were not, so well known, are now being played because, particularly with records -- all the recordings that are made and all the music that's played on radio --there is a great demand for greater variety of music, and so as a result we are hearing a lot of music that is not just the most popular or the best known.