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Recent Concerts/Repertoire

2005
Feb 2 at Stokenham Parish Church Joint concert with the Stanborough Chorus to celebrate 20 years of music making, including Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, Brahms' "How Lovely are thy dwellings fair" and George Dyson's Four Songs for Sailors

Apr 15 at Ivybridge Methodist Church

& Apr 20 at Thurlestone Parish Church

“Music to make you swing” – jazz classics such as "Fly me to the moon", spirituals such as "Down by the riverside", and African songs such as "Hamba Lulu"

Jun 24 at Modbury Parish Church

Concert of Baroque and Romantic music with orchestra including Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir, Bach’s 'Peasant' Cantata and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine

Oct 14 at St. Edmunds, Kingsbridge

Part-songs by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Grieg, Sullivan, etc.

2006
Feb 10 at Dodbrooke Parish Church Choral Evensong including the anthem Greater Love by John Ireland

Apr 28 at Ivybridge Methodist Church

& Apr 29 at Stokenham Parish Church

Fauré’s Requiem and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man with instrumental ensemble

Jun 10 at Salcombe Parish Church

Fauré’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria with small orchestra sung in conjunction with visiting choir from Cabourg (France)

Oct 20 at Sherford Village Hall

After-dinner entertainment of light/humorous/show songs

Dec 13 at St Edmunds, Kingsbridge

Holy Trinity, Salcombe

& Dec 20 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Christmas concerts featuring the carols of John Rutter and the poetry of John Betjeman

2007
Apr 28 at Malborough Parish Church

Beethoven’s Mass in C and short choruses by Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Morten Lauridsen

Jul 6 at Dittisham Parish Church

A selection of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, John Rutter’s jazz-inspired Birthday Madrigals, some American spirituals and jazz classics

Jul 8 at Stokenham Parish Church

Participation in a grand Jazz Concert, singing some of John  Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals, songs from Cats (Lloyd Webber), etc.

Oct 6 at Thurlestone Parish Hall

Part-songs by Grieg and Elgar, and songs from Gilbert & Sullivan

Dec 12th at St. Martin's, Sherford

& Dec 19th at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Christmas Concerts featuring The Time of Christemas by Czech composer Antonin Tučapský

2008
Apr 23 at Petroc's Cburch, Harford

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Apr 25 at Dodbrooke Church, Kingsbridge

Spring Concert - music by English composers Vaughan Williams, Holst, Finzi and Rutter, featuring John Rutter's Feel the Spirit - a cycle of spirituals

Jun 14 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

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Jun 20 at St. Michael and All Angels, Stokenham

Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle, and motets by Bruckner and Rachmaninov

Dec 10 at St Michael's Church, Strete

Dec 12 at St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Dodbrooke

Dec 17 at Holy Trinity Salcombe

A Christmas Cornucopia - a selection of music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and others, with carols and readings
2009
Feb 28 at Kingsbridge Methodist Church Choral Workshop - Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen, and selected choruses from Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons
Mar 28 at St Michael and All Angels, Stokenham Joint concert with Jane Lilley Singers of Bath
May 2 at All Saints, Malborough Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna; Purcell - Chacony for Strings; Handel - Chandos Anthem No. 9; Haydn - 'Come Gentle Spring', from The Seasons; Mendelssohn - 'O for the wings of a dove'
June 13 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe 'A Festival of Song', including Johann Strauss - 'Tales from the Vienna Woods'
June 17 at St Andrew's Church, East Allington Songs from the show Fiddler on the Roof, with pupils from East Allington School
December 9 at St Thomas of Canterbury, Dodbrooke

December 12 at Sherford Village Hall

December 16 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

A Christmas Miscellany with a West Country flavour - incl. carols by Carl Rütti and music by Mendelssohn and Samuel Scheidt
2010  
February 27 at Kingsbridge Methodist Church Choral workshop - Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile (St Cecilia Mass)
March 13 at Thurlestone Parish Hall Works by Rutter, Bach, Franck, Mozart

May 8 at Buckfast Abbey

May 14 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Gounod - St Cecilia Mass; Brahms - 'How lovely is thy dwelling place'; Dvorak - 'Tui nati vulnerati' (from Stabat Mater); Bruckner- motet 'Os justi'; Fauré - 'Cantique de Jean Racine'
   

Other major works performed have been John Rutter’s Requiem; Haydn’s Te Deum; Mozart’s 'Coronation’ Mass; Handel’s Coronation Anthems – Zadok The Priest, The King Shall Rejoice;  Bach’s ‘Peasant’ Cantata.

As well as John Rutter, other contemporary composers whose work has been included in the choir’s programmes are the American, Morten Lauridsen, and the Swiss, Carl Rütti. The choir’s musical director, Alastair Durden, also does a lot of arrangements especially for the choir.

The choir has joined forces in 2007 with a choir from the French town of Cabourg, Salcombe’s twin town, and hopes to do the same again.

© Alvington Singers, last updated November, 2009