Hoylake Choral Society
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
 
 
Season 2010/2011

This, our 63nd season follows our normal three concert pattern. We will be performing in November,
December, and April. Tickets for our November and April concerts are £12, concessions £10, students and children £1.For the carol concert in December the prices are £7 and children £1. Tickets can be obtained, about one month in advance, from:

The Ticket Secretary
Pam Ellice-Clark
0151 632 1533


Linghams Booksellers
9 Banks Road
West Kirby,

Liz Fishwick, Hoylake Post Office
48 Market Street
Hoylake,

any choir member, or

at the door.

Past Concerts

Our next concert
is on
Saturday, November 20th, 2010, at 7:30
in
The Hoylake Chapel
(corner of Meols Drive and Station Street)

British Music at Peace and at War
John Rutter - Song cycles " The Sprig of Thyme" and 5 Traditional Songs
Vaughan Williams - Six Choral Songs "To be sung in time of war"
Karl Jenkins - the choral suite from "The Armed Man"

John Rutter (1945 - )
John Rutter pictureJohn Rutter has been writing music since he was 24, mostly choral works including a large number of hymns and carols. He said of his arrangements of the well known traditional songs included in these two song cycles,
"For children growing up in postwar England as I did, traditional songs form a common musical currency. These songs brought me delight and pleasure then, and they still do now. Though pleasure has become tinged with nostalgia because, for the most part, they are forgotten and gone from our lives, perhaps forever
." We are doing our best to make sure this is untrue and that it remains so! 

The songs included in "the sprig of thyme" cycle are:
    The bold grenadier,
    The keel row,
    The willow tree,
    The sprig of thyme,
    Down by the sally gardens,
    The cuckoo,
    I know where I'm going,
    Willow song,
    O can ye sew cushions,
    The miller of Dee, and
    Afton water.

The 5 traditional song cycle includes:
    The girl I left behind me,
    O waly waly,
    The British grenadiers,
    Golden slumbers, and
    Dashing away with the smoothing iron.

Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
R Vaughan Williams picVaughan Williams wrote this cycle of 6 songs for unison voices
in 1939, based on selections of texts from poems by Shelley. They were a BBC commission and were to have been performed at the 1940 Proms, hence their instructional sub-title. Unfortunately, due to the war, the Proms that year were cancelled. The songs had their premier as a broadcast concert in the December.







Karl Jenkins (1944 - )
Karl Jenkins picKarl Jenkins has a highly eclectic background in music. His early career involved him performing as an oboist with the National Youth Orchstra. He then was a member of several Jazz and Rock bands where he played saxaphone, keyboard, as well as the oboe. In 1972 he joined the progressive rock band "Soft Machine", a group which so pushed the boundaries of rock music that they performed at the Proms. His piece "The armed man : A Mass for peace" was commissioned by the Royal Armouries to be performed at millenium celebrations in 2000. Like Brittain's War requiem, the piece is essentially anti-war and it was dedicated to the suffering people of Kosovo. The choral suite we are performing is a subset made by the composer and includes the Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, and Hymn Before Action sections only of the full work.

We will be accompanied in this concert by:

David Houlder (organ)

David Houlder pic
A native of Preston, David Houlder has had close associations with Merseyside for many years.
David has accompanied many of Hoylake Choral Society's concerts in the past, in particular, he performed the stupendous feat of accompanying our performance of the Verdi Requiem in 2007.






Jim Wrightson (conductor)

Jim in action



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