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2013 |
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| February 1 at
Kingsbridge Community College |
Fundraising concert
with local choirs 'Stanborough Chorus' and 'Musaic' joining the Alvington
Singers. |
| February 9 at St
Thomas of Canterbury, Dodbrooke, Kingsbridge |
Choral Workshop -
Fauré's Requiem and Rutter's "I will Lift Up Mine Eyes" |
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2012 |
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| March 3 at
Kingsbridge Community College |
Choral workshop - Handel's Messiah |
| March 9 at St
Edmunds Church, Kingsbridge |
Choral music
spanning the centuries |
| March 24 at All
Saints Church, Malborough |
Joint concert with
the Jane Lilley Singers from Bath |
| May 25 at All
Saints Church, Malborough |
Choral Classics,
including Handel's Zadok the Priest, 'Dona Nobis Pacem' from Bach's B
minor mass, Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, and choruses from Handel's
Messiah |
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Dec 12 at Holy
Trinity, Salcombe
Dec 14 at St
George's Church, Dittisham
Dec 19 at
Dodbrooke Church, Kingsbridge |
Christmas music, including, "This Endris Night" by local composer Ed Welch, Grieg's
Ave Maris Stella, John Ireland's The Holy Boy and Elizabeth
Poston's Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. |
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2011 |
|
| February at
Kingsbridge Methodist Church |
Choral workshop - Mozart's Requiem |
| April 7 at St
Edmunds Church, Kingsbridge |
'Spring into
Summer' - Jazz songs, madrigals, folk songs, Gilbert & Sullivan |
| June 4 at St
Michael's Church, Stokenham
June 8 at Holy Trinity Salcombe |
Mozart - Requiem,
Laudate Dominum, Ave Verum Corpus; Rachmaninov - Ave Maria;
settings by Alastair Durden of 'Love bade me welcome' (George Herbert)
and 'As rivers meet the sea' (Christina Rossetti) |
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Dec 7 at
Dodbrooke Church, Kingsbridge
Dec 14 at Holy
Trinity, Salcombe |
Seasonal music from
the 15thC to the present day, including John Rutter's 'What Sweeter Music'
and Walford Davies' setting of 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'. |
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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 |
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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' |
| Jun 12 at Holy
Trinity, Salcombe (part of Salcombe Festival) |
Dyson - 'Four
Songs for Sailors', part-songs by Sullivan and Sterndale Bennett, plus
arrangements of 'Annie's Song' and 'O Susanna' |
| December 8 at
at St Thomas of Canterbury, Dodbrooke December 15 at
Holy Trinity, Salcombe |
Christmas
carols and readings, including Britten's Ceremony of Carols. |
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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 |
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2008 |
|
Apr 23 at Petroc's Cburch, Harford
&
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 |
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Jun 14 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe
&
Jun 20 at St.
Michael and All Angels, Stokenham |
Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle, and motets by Bruckner and Rachmaninov |
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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 |
| 2007 |
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Apr 28 at Malborough Parish Church |
Beethoven’s Mass in C and short choruses by Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Morten
Lauridsen |
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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 |
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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. |
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Oct 6 at Thurlestone Parish Hall |
Part-songs by Grieg and Elgar, and songs from Gilbert & Sullivan |
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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 |
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The choir joined forces in 2007 with a choir from the
French town of Cabourg, Salcombe’s twin town, and hopes to do the same
again. |
| 2006 |
| Feb 10 at Dodbrooke Parish
Church |
Choral Evensong including the
anthem Greater Love by John Ireland |
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Apr 28 at Ivybridge Methodist Church
& Apr 29 at Stokenham Parish Church
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Fauré’s Requiem and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man with instrumental ensemble |
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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) |
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Oct 20 at Sherford Village Hall |
After-dinner entertainment of light/humorous/show songs |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 specially for the choir. |
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