A Choral Concert Celebrating the Music of Stage and Screen: Concert by the South London Singers. at Beckenham Methodist Church, London on Saturday 4th July 2026

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A Choral Concert Celebrating the Music of Stage and Screen

Concert by the South London Singers.

Add to my Calendar 04-07-2026 19:00 04-07-2026 21:00 36 A Choral Concert Celebrating the Music of Stage and Screen One of the joys of being a choral singer (and hopefully also for those listening in the audience!) is the wide range of music available, not just that written originally for religious settings and performance by mixed choirs but also folk songs of often uncertain origin and the music written specially for films, musicals, opera and operetta. As with many choral groups, the South London Singers normally sing music in four voice parts. In the various categories of music that we will sing in this last concert of this season, we are fortunate that many arrangements are available which take these solos, arias and choruses and ‘tweak’ them gently to enable the (often well-known) favourite melodies to be sung by groups like us. On this occasion we will include a feast of choral suites developed from films such as ‘Oliver’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ and dip into the varied settings of opera choruses from composers such as Verdi and Bizet. In the course of the concert, we will find ourselves in locations from London to New York City, the south of Spain, Austria, the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq and, jet fuel willing, even to Japan. Indeed, perhaps we will manage to reach a place further away beyond and above Earth altogether! Beckenham Methodist Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Beckenham Methodist Church
Bromley Road
Beckenham
London
BR3 5JE
England

Saturday 4th July 2026
7:00 PM

Programme

Georges Bizet – Carmen: March of the Toreadors
Georges Bizet – Carmen: Habanera - 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle'
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story: Choral Selection (arr. by William Stickles)
Harold Arlen – Over the Rainbow (arr. Mark Hayes)
Lionel Bart – Selection from 'Oliver!'
Richard Rogers – The Sound of Music: Choral Suite (arr. Clay Warnick)
Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Humming Chorus
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
Giuseppe Verdi – Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus

Performers

Jack Stone – piano
Christopher Braime – Conductor

South London Singers

Programme Note

One of the joys of being a choral singer (and hopefully also for those listening in the audience!) is the wide range of music available, not just that written originally for religious settings and performance by mixed choirs but also folk songs of often uncertain origin and the music written specially for films, musicals, opera and operetta. As with many choral groups, the South London Singers normally sing music in four voice parts. In the various categories of music that we will sing in this last concert of this season, we are fortunate that many arrangements are available which take these solos, arias and choruses and ‘tweak’ them gently to enable the (often well-known) favourite melodies to be sung by groups like us.

On this occasion we will include a feast of choral suites developed from films such as ‘Oliver’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ and dip into the varied settings of opera choruses from composers such as Verdi and Bizet. In the course of the concert, we will find ourselves in locations from London to New York City, the south of Spain, Austria, the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq and, jet fuel willing, even to Japan. Indeed, perhaps we will manage to reach a place further away beyond and above Earth altogether!

A Choral Concert Celebrating the Music of Stage and Screen

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