Santa Claus came to Town!
11 December 2016
Last night the choir gave their annual Carols for All! before a
large and enthusiastic audience at St Matthew's Church. With vibrant
favourites from John Gardner (The Holly and the Ivy and Tomorrow
shall be my dancing day), the late Christopher Tambling (The
Charlestone Carol), and our former MD Malcolm Tyler (Mary had a
baby), two mega-Cantatas by Cecilia McDowall (A Winter's Night and
Christus natus est), and a number of audience carols, you would
think it was complete ... but ... we were delighted to be joined
again by the Northampton High School Junior School Choir, and for
the first time (at Christmas) by the Stanwick Handbell Ringers.
Stanwick Handbells
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Christmas Jumpers for Family Carol
Singalong
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AND ... we gave another concert on the same day! At the
conclusion of their afternoon rehearsal, the choir donned their
Christmas jumpers and welcomed a large number of children, with
parents, carers, and grandparents, for our first, hour-long, Family
Carol Singalong! Compered and accompanied on the piano by our MD we
sang a medley of popular Christmas songs - and Santa Claus did come
to Town, giving presents to those children in the audience with the
best Christmas jumpers! Our Christmas elf, Ivan, also accompanied
the choir in solo numbers, as well as showing off his footwork in
Thomas Trotter's organ arrangement of Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride!
So popular was it that he reprised it again in the evening concert.
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