Children aged 10 and under can attend for
free.
The Northampton Bach Choir are delighted to extend a welcome to
Adele Hudson and Rushden Town Band for their second concert together
following their critically-acclaimed performance of Berlioz’s
Grande Messe des Morts in June 2019.
This concert of Fanfare and Carols includes a wide selection popular
classics in arrangements for choir and brass band, as well as four
carols for audience, choir, and brass band (Covid-19 guidance
permitting), and a number of solo items from the band. Take a look
at the programme below and you’ll find plenty of familiar favourite,
beautiful melodies, and toe tapping delights. We are especially
delighted to give the UK première performance of two arrangements by
Howard Lorriman, as well as two local arrangements by Paul Truman
and our own MD, Lee Dunleavy.
Our concert is given at Cripps Hall Theatre, on the campus of
Northampton School for Boys. With comfortable seating, plenty of
space for interval refreshments, and ample parking opposite, we hope
that it will prove a useful venue during this period when our normal
venue, St Matthew’s Church, with its forced air heating system and
windows which cannot be opened, is not Covid-19 secure for
large-scale choral performances.
Please note that this is a matinée performance, beginning at 3.00pm
and ending at approximately 5.00pm.
Programme:
Northampton Bach Choir
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
Rushden Town Band
Conductor - Adele HudsonChoir Carols
A Christmas Festival - Leroy Anderson arr. Lee Dunleavy
And the glory of the Lord - G. F. Handel arr. Phillip
Littlemore
Christmas Lullaby - John Rutter arr. John Clay
Jesus Child - John Rutter arr. Eric Wilson
Jingle Bells - arr. David Willcocks & Eric Wilson
Joy to the World - G. F. Handel arr. Howard Lorriman
Mary had a Baby - arr. Malcolm Tyler & Paul Truman
O Holy Night - Adoplhe Adam arr. Howard Lorriman
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol - John Rutter arr. Peter Graham
Audience Carols
God rest you merry, gentlemen - arr. David Willcocks & Ray
Steadman-Allen
Good King Wenceslas - arr. Reginald Jacques & Lee Dunleavy
Hark! the herald angels - arr. David Willcocks & Ray
Steadman-Allen
O come, all ye faithful - arr. David Willcocks & Ray
Steadman-Allen
Brass Band Solos
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - arr. Gavin Somerset
Frosty the Snowman - arr. Sandy Smith
Infant Holy - arr. Andi Cook
The Christmas Song - arr. Philip Sparke
The First Nowell - arr. Stephen Tighe
Spirit of Christmas - Peter Graham
White Christmas - arr. Philip Sparke |
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