Andante Concert

On Sunday 27th October we were delighted to welcome the Andante Chamber Choir for a concert of music and poetry. The wind was blowing outside and the sky grew dark, but the audience inside enjoyed a colourful variety of music:
A CHORAL TAPESTRY
PART ONE

• ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL [2026 Andante Commission] by Karin Scott
• THE GALLANT WEAVER (1997) by James MacMillan
• THE SILVER SWAN (1612) by Orlando Gibbons
• Poem THE OLD WOMAN and the SWAN
• BUSHES & BRIARS (1908) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• BRIGG FAIR (1905) arranged by Percy Grainger
• Poem THE FLODDEN RIDEOUT
• THE SONG OF THE BLACKSMITH (1917) arranged by Gustav Holst
  

INTERVAL 

PART TWO

• THE BLUE BIRD (1910) by Charles Villiers Stanford
• SHENANDOAH (2012) arranged by Thomas Hewitt Jones
• LULLABYE [Goodnight, My Angel] (1993) by Billy Joel arranged by Kirby Shaw
• Poem LULLABY

• WE'LL GATHER LILACS (1945) by Ivor Novello arranged by Geoffrey Emerson

• GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (1973) by Elton John / Bernie Taupin arranged by Wendy Sergeant