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Come Rain or Come Shine
Choral Music for an English Summer
Part of the Wooburn Singers 2025-2026 Cycle
Add to my Calendar 20-06-2026 19:30 20-06-2026 21:30 36 Come Rain or Come Shine An eclectic mixture of music for a summer evening, our concert opens with Bob Chilcott’s The Weather Forecast and then takes a varied journey through the atmospheric highs and slightly damper moments of the season. Part I: Come Rain… featuring Whitacre’s immersive Cloudburst, Chopin’s iconic Raindrop Prelude, and Elgar’s stirring As Torrents in Summer. Part II: …Or Come Shine! We emerge into the light with Vaughan Williams’ Linden Lea, Stanford’s The Bluebird, and even a bit of Rodgers and Hammerstein magic. All Saints Parish Church, Marlow DD/MM/YYYYDetails
All Saints Parish Church
The Causeway
Marlow
Buckinghamshire
SL7 2AA
England
Programme
Bob Chilcott – Weather Report
Joseph Haydn – The Seasons: 'Hark! The deep tremendous voice'
Orlando Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 3, Never weather-beaten sail
Edward Elgar – The Saga of King Olaf: 'As Torrents In Summer'
Frédéric Chopin – Prelude in D flat 'Raindrop', Op.28 no.15
Edward Elgar – The Shower, Op.71 no.1
Sarah Quartel – After the Rain
Jake Runestad – Cello Songs: Spring 'Each wet splat'
Eric Whitacre – Cloudburst
~ Interval ~
Lili Boulanger – Hymne au Soleil (1912)
Joseph Haydn – The Seasons: 'Behold on High.. Hail Thou Glorious Sun'
Anonymous – Sumer is Icumen in (arr. Grayston Ives for 8-part choir)
John Liptrot Hatton – Stars of the Summer Night
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Linden Lea
Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces, Op.71: 2, Summer evening
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird, Op.119 no.3
Dan Forrest – The Sun Never Says
Rodgers & Hammerstein – Carousel: 'You'll Never Walk Alone' (arr. Stephen Jackson for SATB & Piano)
Harold Arlen – Come Rain or Come Shine (arr. Kirby Shaw for SATB & Piano)
Nacio Herb Brown – Singin' in the Rain
Performers
Jonathon Cole-Swinard – Conductor
Simon Howat – piano
Wooburn Singers
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Programme Note
An eclectic mixture of music for a summer evening, our concert opens with Bob Chilcott’s The Weather Forecast and then takes a varied journey through the atmospheric highs and slightly damper moments of the season.
Part I: Come Rain… featuring Whitacre’s immersive Cloudburst, Chopin’s iconic Raindrop Prelude, and Elgar’s stirring As Torrents in Summer.
Part II: …Or Come Shine! We emerge into the light with Vaughan Williams’ Linden Lea, Stanford’s The Bluebird, and even a bit of Rodgers and Hammerstein magic.
