Concert at St Basil's Church, Bassaleg
The choir sang in St Basil's Church, Bassaleg on the evening of 27th June. The Rev Christopher Stone invited us to perform to raise funds to help restore the fabric of this ancient church.
We are pleased to announce that £753.00 was raised in aid of church funds.
It was another wonderful concert. It is some years since we were able to perform at St Basil's, but one lady told us she remembered that concert and had clearly enjoyed it. This time we were made very welcome by all at St Basil’s and the audience seemed to enjoy our selection of music.
Not a dry eye in the house by the end of our men’s rendition of ‘Tell my father’ and lots of happy faces listening to our ladies’ rendition of ‘Sound the trumpet’. Beautiful flute playing by Sylvia and solos from Tim and Anne. Accompanist Gaynor and Musical Director Carol excellent - as usual - thank you ladies.
Afterwards we were all treated to very welcome drinks to round off a very warm evening
Music for this concert included:
- Cantique de Jean Racine Gabriel Faure
- The Seal Lullaby Eric Whitacre
- Let all the world in every corner sing Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Lift up your heads William Mathias
- Can you hear me? Thomas Hewitt-Jones
- For the beauty of the earth John Rutter
- Alleluia - Elaine Hagenberg
- Exsultate Justi Ludovico da Viadana
- Sound the trumpet Henry Purcell
- Tell my father Frank Wildhorn
- O la, o che buon eco Orlando di Lasso
- Medley from 'West side story' Leonard Bernstein, arr. Len Thomas
- Do not be afraid Philip Stopford
- Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel Paul Simon
- The way you look tonight Jerome Kern, arr. George Mitchell
- Tanzen und springen Hans Leo Hassler
- Fiddler man trad. arr. John Rutter
