a summer concert of part-songs, folk-song settings, excerpts from opera, and songs just to brighten you up

the Brighton Orpheus Choir

conducted by Stella Hull

accompanist: Muriel Hart

Saturday 30 June 2007
given in Lewes
at Priory School Chapel, Mountfield Road

with the Lewes Junior Choir
accompanist: Susan Bain

programme below

another concert on
Saturday 7 July 2007
in Brighton

at Varndean School, Balfour Road
7.30 pm

guests:
John Hancorn (baritone)
Gavin Henderson (trumpet)

Programme

William Sterndale Bennett Come live with me
Gioachino Rossini Villagers’ Chorus (from William Tell)
Edward Elgar As torrents in summer
John Rutter All things bright and beautiful
Wolfgang A Mozart Ave verum corpus
Peter Jenkyns The owls
Armstrong Gibbs Five eyes
traditional Scottish arr. David Willcocks Afton Water
Giuseppe Verdi Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (from Nabucco)
spiritual arranged by Charles Collins Chatter with the angels
Georges Bizet March of the Toreadors (from Carmen)

Interval -refreshments will be available

traditional Norfolk arr. by Peter Warlock & Armstrong Gibbs Yarmouth Fair
traditional, from the Isle of Man, arranged Lori-Anne Dolloff Manx lullaby
Charles V Stanford The blue bird
Rodgers & Hart arr. David Blackwell Blue moon
traditional American arr. Stuart Johnson Three American songs
Zoltán Kodály See the gypsies
Leigh Harline When you wish upon a star (from Pinocchio)
traditional American arr. George Mitchell Old MacDonald had a farm
Harold Arlen arranged by Guy Turner Over the rainbow
Mary Donnelly arr. George Strid We are the young
George Frideric Handel Hallelujah! (from Messiah)