I sing at Christ Church. 
Polycarp, Seige and Elendil’s Heir are all [del]Episcoplains[/del] … [del]Episcopallans[/del] … Anglicans, I believe.
We’re having a much easier program this Sunday for Low (Quasimodo) Sunday: a chant ordinary (Lux et origo) and Byrd’s Post dies octo.
In addition to Baker’s excellent and informative post, here’s links to the two hymns from the Book of Common Praise of the Anglican Church of Canada:
Jesus Christ is Risen Today (tune: EASTER HYMN).
Christ the Lord is Risen Today (tune: WURTTEMBERG)
Note that there is a third hymn, also called Christ the Lord is Risen Again (tune: WURTTEMBERG), which is a translation of a medieval German hymn.
Now that I’ve poked around in the hymnal, I remember that the complete set for the service were:
[ul][li]Jesus Christ is Risen Today[/li]
[li]Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem (ST. FULBERT)[/li]
[li]Christ the Lord is Risen Today[/li]
[li]Who is There on this Easter Morning (QUELLE EST CETTE ODEUR)[/li]
[li]The Strife is O’er, the Battle Won (VICTORY)[/ul][/li]
The Psalm was Psalm 118, plus there was an anthem from the choir post-communion - can’t remember the name.
To further confuse things, my Baptist church does the text of “Christ the Lord…” to the melody used for “Jesus Christ…” in Northern Piper’s links (“Easter Hymn”). I didn’t know that was unusual until I read this thread.
We use a UCC hymnal (the New Century Hymnal), so I don’t know what other Baptists do (not that it’s generally possible to make blanket statements about what Baptists do, of course).
We used to have a ridiculously awesome orchestral arrangement for that hymn, written by our old choir director, but we haven’t done it since he left a few years ago, and the last few Easters have been a little disappointing for me because of that. It had this descant that I always looked forward to singing, and the modulations were fun.
The other hymns we did this year were “Now the Green Blade Rises” and “Joy Dawned Again on Easter Day.” The choir did some Vaughan Williams stuff - “O Clap Your Hands” and the first two of the Five Mystical Songs. We came worryingly close to complete disaster a couple times, but we managed to hold it together. I always feel like we need another rehearsal before Easter; two hours the day before and half an hour before the service is never enough time to pull things together with the orchestra. I usually play in the orchestra and sing (er, not at the same time, obviously), so it gets rather stressful for me. I’ve mostly recovered, though. 
I’m an atheist but am very passionate about early music. I spent last Saturday hearing Pomerium perform their Passion & Resurrection Motets of the Renaissance, including the Regina Coeli of Lassus and a marvelous Tenebrae factae sunt of Gesualdo. This season already I have seen Lionheart, the Tallis Scholars, Vox, Anonymous 4, and Parthenia perform.
I was at St. Mark’s. So close!
And at St. Mark’s, they sang “Jesus Christ Is Risen Today” to the tune of “Christ The Lord Is Risen Today,” (that is, the Wuttemburg), so I, not being a usual congregant, was singing words I didn’t know to a tune I know very well. Had one of those experiences where you sing out and – whoops! Shut up! Wrong words!*
I have never heard the tune of the Easter Hymn, or at least not that I recognized from a MIDI file.
At the rehearsal I attended on Saturday, our director introduced all the musicians–sorry, instrumentalists–and then started right into the first song we were singing in rehearsal. But before we even got to the words, she realized she hadn’t tuned the musicians. Quickly the pianist provided a note, the orchestra tuned, then the choir quickly warmed up–probably not getting high enough to suit the soprano on my right (who was singing a couple of high As–one of which was held for two measures)–and then we started over.
This year’s rehearsal wasn’t bad as such things go–I’ve certainly attended rehearsals which were at least 50% practice processing and recessing (we did not process or recess this year, simplifying that part) and the remainder devoted to practicing entrances, transitions, and checking the balance in the microphones. Not that any of that stuff is bad or unneccessary, just that any individual choir member does not neccessarily get much benefit out of being present.
As for the discussion of "Christ the Lord is Risen Today " and varients–the Easter Hymn is the tune in the United Methodist Hymnal. That’s also the tune I sung on Easter, when the choir actually used music from some OTHER hymnal, which will be nameless because I don’t know what hymnal it was. I just know that the United Methodist Hymnal has 6 verses, but the one we sung from had 4 verses and a descant–recommended for singing on verses 2 and 4. We actually sang the verses in the order 1,3,2,4–presumably to put them in the order found in the United Methodist Hymnal.
What Baker said. When I saw this, my first thought was, “there’s another Whiskypalian in the house!” 
Siege (is she still among us?) is also Episcopal.
At good ol’ St. Pat’s Easter Sunday we sang:
The Day of Resurrection
Good Christians Now Rejoice and Sing
At The Lamb’s High Feast We Sing
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
The choir did a really good jazzed up version of Lift High The Cross that actually got applause. Applause. From Episcopalians even. Can you imagine!
Ok it was more a golf clap but still… what’s next… jumping pews? :eek:
swampie, my first association with the Episcopal church was when I was stationed in Korea, 1976 to 1977. I got there during Lent and was not looking forward to a bland “regular Protestant worship” service at Easter. Then one of the Protestant chaplains left and was replaced by a guy who happened to be Episcopal and I ended up going to a straight Episcopal service he held, in addition to his regular duties. I was still Lutheran, but we’re both fairly formal and the liturgy isn’t all that different.
At Easter, when he said "It wouldn’t seem like Easter without singing “Jesus Christ is Risen today” I knew I’d stick with that service, because in my home Lutheran church we’d always started off with that. Now, the Paschal candle and the incense were extras I hadn’t encountered, but they set Easter apart as not being just a regular Sunday service.