A Summer Serenade: Concert by the South London Singers. at Beckenham Methodist Church, London on Saturday 12th July 2025

A Summer Serenade

Concert by the South London Singers.

Add to my Calendar 12-07-2025 19:00 12-07-2025 21:00 36 A Summer Serenade To borrow roughly the words of Cole Porter, the South London Singers would like to invite you to ‘Another Openin’, Another Show’ namely our Summer Concert - a feast of varied music written between the 16th and 20th centuries, illustrating how many different atmospheres can be conjured up in shorter choral works. It will be ‘Summertime’ according to Gershwin’s reassuring lullaby, whatever the weather, though Elgar set words about ‘Torrents in Summer’. Hopefully you may have enjoyable summer travels to look forward to, so why not come with us and Vaughan Williams to ‘Linden Lea’  and’ with Elgar, to where ‘My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land’. Indeed, matters of the heart feature also in Stephen Foster’s happy invitation to ‘Come where my love lies dreaming’. In John Farmer’s madrigal, Amyntas has a time of it trying to find his ‘Fair Phyllis’ whilst C.Carson Parks’ proponent in ‘Somethin’ Stupid’ struggles to find the right words (the S.L.S. hope not to have this problem however!) Fortunately, the character in Rogers and Hart’s ‘Blue Moon’ is, it seems, at last successful in his (or her) pursuit. More reflectively, Thomas Tallis’ beautiful short piece ‘If Ye Love Me’ concerns religious love and we hear the sad tale of the ‘Silver Swan ‘ (by Wilbye) - she finds her voice too late (again, we hope not to have this problem ourselves!) Even with the earlier starting time for this concert (7 p.m.), Night will be beginning to reveal itself as we come to the end of the concert. We have included three temporal pieces: one by Wilbye who wishes ‘Sweet Night’ to draw on and relieve his cares (we hope our programme will have helped with any you may have); Sir Arthur Sullivan’s setting of ‘The Long Day Closes’ and the third by Cole Porter whose character is thinking of his love wherever he travels and whatever the time of ‘Night and Day’. There will be a short interval during which drinks will be available. To avoid disappointment, please obtain your ticket via our website. Beckenham Methodist Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Beckenham Methodist Church
Bromley Road
Beckenham
London
BR3 5JE
England

Saturday 12th July 2025
7:00 PM

Tickets

Prices: £15 with reductions for children and S.L.S. Friends
Book Tickets

Programme

John Wilbye – Draw on, Sweet Night
Edward Elgar – As Torrents in Summer
George Gershwin – Summertime
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Linden Lea
Cole Porter – Kiss Me Kate: 'Another op'nin, Another show'
John Wilbye – The Silver Swan

Performers

Christopher Braime – Conductor
Jack Stone – Accompanist

South London Singers

Programme Note

To borrow roughly the words of Cole Porter, the South London Singers would like to invite you to ‘Another Openin’, Another Show’ namely our Summer Concert - a feast of varied music written between the 16th and 20th centuries, illustrating how many different atmospheres can be conjured up in shorter choral works.

It will be ‘Summertime’ according to Gershwin’s reassuring lullaby, whatever the weather, though Elgar set words about ‘Torrents in Summer’.

Hopefully you may have enjoyable summer travels to look forward to, so why not come with us and Vaughan Williams to ‘Linden Lea’ and’ with Elgar, to where ‘My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land’.

Indeed, matters of the heart feature also in Stephen Foster’s happy invitation to ‘Come where my love lies dreaming’. In John Farmer’s madrigal, Amyntas has a time of it trying to find his ‘Fair Phyllis’ whilst C.Carson Parks’ proponent in ‘Somethin’ Stupid’ struggles to find the right words (the S.L.S. hope not to have this problem however!) Fortunately, the character in Rogers and Hart’s ‘Blue Moon’ is, it seems, at last successful in his (or her) pursuit.

More reflectively, Thomas Tallis’ beautiful short piece ‘If Ye Love Me’ concerns religious love and we hear the sad tale of the ‘Silver Swan ‘ (by Wilbye) - she finds her voice too late (again, we hope not to have this problem ourselves!)

Even with the earlier starting time for this concert (7 p.m.), Night will be beginning to reveal itself as we come to the end of the concert. We have included three temporal pieces: one by Wilbye who wishes ‘Sweet Night’ to draw on and relieve his cares (we hope our programme will have helped with any you may have); Sir Arthur Sullivan’s setting of ‘The Long Day Closes’ and the third by Cole Porter whose character is thinking of his love wherever he travels and whatever the time of ‘Night and Day’.

There will be a short interval during which drinks will be available.

To avoid disappointment, please obtain your ticket via our website.

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