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Beckenham Methodist Church
Bromley Road
Beckenham
London
BR3 5JE
England
Tickets
Prices: £15 standard ticket, under 18s free
Book Tickets
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
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!
