Summer  2008
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price	In Aid Of
Saturday 14th June	7:30 pm	St Michael and All Angels' Church, Lambourn	£6	Church Funds
Friday 20th June	7:30 pm	St Mary the Virgin Church, Kintbury	Retiring Collection	Church Funds
Saturday 28th June	7:30 pm	Majendie Hall, Church of St Mary's, Speen, Newbury	Retiring Collection	Church Funds

 

Musical Director: Rosemary Evans Accompanist: Daphne George

Guest Soloists:- Soprano....Debbie Hearn Tenor....Mike Barthorpe Baritone....Alan Sheldon

The Cromwell Singers: Chorus Of Wedding Guests (from Lucia di Lammermoor)                                                          ... ..........................Donizetti Bridal Chorus (from Lohengrin).........................................Wagner Vocal Solos The Cromwell Singers: Waltz Scene (from Eugene Onegin)..............................Tchaikovsky Piano Duet: Wedding Day At Troldhaugen.......................Grieg (arr. Ruthardt) The Cromwell Singers: Londonderry Air.................................Trad. Irish (arr. Bob Chilcott) Banquet Fugue................................................................... John Rutter INTERVAL The Cromwell Singers: Medley from ‘Fiddler On The Roof’.......................................Jerry Bock      Narrator: John Hutchinson ...............................  (arr. John Leavitt) Piano Duet: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.............................Handel (arr Weismann) The Cromwell Singers: Medley from ‘My Fair Lady’..................................Frederick Loewe                                                                                (arr. Carl Strommen) Vocal Solos The Cromwell Singers: Irish Blessing....................................................................Bob Chilcott Guest Soloists:- Soprano....Debbie Hearn Tenor....Mike Barthorpe Baritone....Alan Sheldon

 

Christmas  2007
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price	In Aid Of
Sunday, 25 November	6:00 pm	Eastbury Parish Church	£10 All Sold	Church Funds
Thursday, 29 November	7:30 pm	Fairclose, Newbury	£5 Available at the Door	Parkinson's Disease Society
Saturday, 1 December	7:30 pm	United Reformed Church Church, Hungerford	£6 Available at the Door	Save the Children & Church Funds

 

Programme

The Cromwell Singers: African Noel Angels’ Carol words and music by John Rutter Audience Carol 1:  Hark! The Herald Angels Sing The Cromwell Singers: Baby, What You Goin’ To Be? Natalie Sleeth Holy Child words and music by David Palmer The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn (Domi Jesu!) Edmund Rubbra Musical Interlude: Daphne George (piano solo) The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy arr. Pam Wedgwood Daphne George and David Wilcox (piano duet) Polka from Sonatina No. 3 from Pleasured of Youth  Diabelli The Cromwell Singers: Run, Run, Shepherds! words and music by Anna Laura Page In The Bleak Midwinter words by Christina Rossetti; music by Harold Darke Audience Carol 2: Away in a Manger The Cromwell Singers: Were You There on That Christmas Night? words and music by Natalie Sleeth Do you hear what I Hear? words and music by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne; arr. Harry Simeone  The Cromwell Singers: Let Us Sing written and arranged by Harry Simeone adapted from a poem by Christina Rossetti White Christmas words and music by Irving Berlin; arranged by Hector Mac Carthy Christmas in Your Eyes words and music by Carl Strommen Can Santa Make It Through Tonight? words and music by Jay Althouse Audience Carol 3: O Little Town of Bethlehem Music Interlude: Daphne George (piano solo) I Wonder as I Wander arr. Pam Wedgwood Daphne George and David Wilcox (piano duet) Nola Felix Arndt The Cromwell Singers: Jingle Bells arranged by Ray Charles Jingle Bell Rock words and music by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe; arranged by Teena Chinn What Sweeter Music words by Robert Herrick; music by John Rutter Joy! A Carol Cantata for Christmas arranged by William Cutter Audience Carol 4: O Come All Ye Faithful

 

 

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Spring/Summer  2007
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price	In Aid Of
Friday 8th June	7:30 pm	St John's Church, Newbury	TBA	TBA
Saturday 16th June	7:30 pm	St Michael and All Angels' Church, Lambourn	TBA	TBA
Saturday 23rd June	7:30 pm	Newbury Methodist Church	TBA	TBA
Monday 9th July	7:30 pm	St Lawrence's Church, Hungerford	TBA	TBA

 

The programme included sacred and secular music: Praise the Lord with the Sound of Trumpet Music by Natalie Sleeth;  SATB arrangement and additional words by David Wilcox   Fair Phyllis I Saw Edited by Edmund H. Fellowes; Music by John Farmer   O No John Somerset Folk-song; Arrange by Eric H. Thiman   Musical Interlude: Daphne George & David Wilcox Perfidia - A. Dominguez (piano solo) By and By - arr. J Kember (piano duet)   Panis Angelicus Music by César Franck; Arranged by Henry Geehl   Weep, O Mine Eyes Edited by David Randolph; Music by John Bennet   Beauty and the Beast Lyrics by Howard Ashman; Music by Alan Menken;  Arranged by Roger Emerson   Interval   Green, Green Arranged by Angela Bennett   The Long Day Closes Words by Henry F. Chorley; Music by Arthur Sullivan   Linden Lea Words by W. Barnes; Music by R. Vaughan Williams; Arranged by Arthur Somervell   Musical Interlude: Daphne George & David Wilcox Farewell to Stromness - Peter Maxwell Davies (piano solo) Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho - arr. J. Kember (piano duet)   I Will Sing With The Spirit Words: 1 Corinthians 14, v. 15; Music by John Rutter As Torrents In Summer Words by Longfellow; Music by Edward Elgar   Bavarian Highlands ~ The Dance Words by C. Alice Elgar; Music by Edward Elgar   Medley from The Phantom Of The Opera Lyrics by Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe and Mike Batt; Music by Andre Lloyd Webber; Arranged by  Ed Lojeski

 

 

2006 Christmas series of concerts. This is us at St Mary's Fawley on 2nd December  (please click image to ENLARGE)

 

Christmas  2006
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price	In Aid Of
Thursday, 30 November	7:30 pm	Fairclose, Newbury	TBA	Parkinson's Disease Society
Friday, 1 December	7:30 pm	St Mary's Church, Speen	Retiring Collection	Church Fabric
Saturday, 2 December	7:00 pm	Fawley Parish Church	Retiring Collection	Church Funds
Friday, 15 December	7:30 pm	Lambourn Parish Church	TVA	Church Funds
Saturday, 16 December	3:00 pm	Hungerford Methodist Church	TVA	TVA

 

The programme includes sacred and secular music:-   The Cromwell Singers: For Unto Us A Child Is Born from Handel’s Messiah Audience Carol 1: Once In Royal David's City The Cromwell Singers: The First Noel/Pachelbel’s Canon arr. by Michael Clawson Child Of Peace Traditional Polish Carol  Additional words & music by Don Besig & Nancy Price Scots Nativity Trad. Scottish words, Music by Alan Bullard Musical Interlude: Daphne George & David Wilcox I Wonder As I Wander Trad. arr. Wedgwood (Piano Solo) Sleigh Bell Tinkle R Eilenberg (Piano Duet) The Cromwell Singers: Do you hear what I Hear Words & music by Noel Regney & Gloria Shayne; arr. Harry Simeone Audience Carol 2: Hark The Herald Angels Sing The Cromwell Singers: Here Is The Little Door  Words by Frances Chesterton; Music by Herbert Howells In The Bleak Midwinter Words by Christina Rossetti; Music by Harold Darke   Run, Run, Shepherds Words & music by Anna Laura Page

 

Spring/Summer  2006
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price	In Aid Of

 

Programme  For the beauty of the earth - John Rutter Here is the little door - Herbert Howells In Remembrance from Requiem  - Eleanor Daley The Lord is my shepherd The Love of the Sea - Donna Rhodenizer When Pa was a little boy like me Witness - Traditional spiritual arranged by Jack Halloran and Dick Bolks

 

 

Christmas  2005
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price	In Aid Of
Saturday, 26 November	7:30 pm	Peasemore Parish Church	£5	Church Funds
Thursday, 1 December	7:30 pm	United Reformed Church, Hungerford	£4	Children in Distress and Motor Neurone Disease
Saturday, 3 December	7:30 pm	Lambourn Parish Church	£5	Church Funds
Thursday, 8 December	7:30 pm	Fairclose, Newbury	£5	Parkinson's Disease Society
Friday, 9 December	7:30 pm	St Mary's Church, Speen	Retiring Collection	Church Fabric

 

The programme included: Baby, What You Goin' To Be? - Natalie Sleeth Christmas with Johnny Marks - Johnny Marks Can Santa Make It Through Tonight? - Jay Althouse A slow-rock, 50's style holiday number from Jay Althouse, this time telling a story of a Christmas Eve so snowy and cold ("Our car has a disease called frozen anti-freeze.") that Santa might not make it through. (Of course, he does.) Great fun for choirs of all ages. Come, Emmanuel - Don Besig Gloria and Cum Sancto Spiritu - Vivaldi Hark! the Herald Angels Sing - Samuel Arnold Jazz Gloria - Natalie Sleeth Joy! - William Cutter William Cutter skilfully weaves five familiar carols into a tight, powerful 3 1/2 minute festival anthem. Includes Joy to the World, Once in Royal David's City, Angels We Have Heard On High, God Rest You Merry Gentlemen, and O Come, All Ye Faithful. . Together at Christmas - arranged by Carl Strommen As a major composer of instrumental and vocal music, CARL STROMMEN is recognized as one of the most often performed composers of educational music in the United States. A graduate of the City College of New York, Mr. Strommen was the Director of Bands at the Mamaroneck Public Schools, Mamaroneck, NY for many years. He is a member of the faculty at the CW Post campus of Long Island University, where he teaches orchestration and arranging. Recognized by ASCAP as a consistent writer in the Standard Awards category, Mr. Strommen is also active as a clinician, lecturer and guest conductor. Were You There on That Christmas Night? - Natalie Sleeth In a Tiny Manger - Mary Lynn Lightfoot There is a Child - Don Besig plus audience carols

 

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Peasemore Parish Church

United Reformed Church, Hungerford

Lambourn Parish Church

Fairclose, Newbury

St Mary's Church, Speen

 

 

 

Spring  2005
Date	Time	Venue	Ticket Price
Tuesday, 7 June	7:30 pm	Lambourn Court, Newbury	-
Saturday, 11 June	7:30 pm	St. Nicolas Church, Newbury	£6
Saturday, 18 June	7:30 pm	Lambourn Church	£5
Monday, 20 June	7:30 pm	Aldermaston Church,	Retiring Collection
Monday, 4 July	7:30 pm	United Reformed Church, Hungerford,	Free tickets from various points in Hungerford,  but donations please to United Reformed Church on the night.

 

The programme includes: Fiddler on the roof - Harnick/ Bock All in the April Evening - Tynan/Roberton Take these wings - Kupferschmid/Besig In the still of the night - Cole Porter May I learn to be silent  - Criag Cassils Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel Come to me O my Love - Allan Robert Petker When I fall in love - Heyman/Young Jesu Joy of man's desiring - Bach What a wonderful world - Weiss & Thiele Medley from Les Misérables - Schönberg/Kretzmer

 

Christmas  2004
Date	Time	Venue
Friday, 3 December	7:30 pm	St John's Church, Newbury
Saturday, 4 December	6:30 pm	Fawley Parish Church
Thursday, 9 December	7:30 pm	Fair Close, Newbury
Saturday, 11 December	7:30 pm	Hungerford Methodist Church

The programme included: Angels' Carol - John Rutter Christmas In Your Eyes - Carl Strommen For Unto Us A Child Is Born - Handel from "Messiah"  In The Bleak Mid Winter - Harold Darke Jingle Bells - arranged by Ray Charles Medieval Carol Fantasy - arranged by Brad Printz Sing Noel - Natalie Sleeth Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day - John Gardner White Christmas - Irvin Berlin

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Spring  2004
Date	Time	Venue
Saturday, 22 May	7:30 pm	St George's Hall, Wash Common
Tuesday, 8 June	7:30 pm	Lambourn Court, Shaw
Saturday, 12 June	7:30 pm	Boxford Parish Church
Monday, 14 June	7:30 pm	Aldermaston Parish Church
Saturday, 19 June	7:30 pm	St Nicolas Hall, Newbury

 

Christmas 2003
Date	Time	Venue
Tuesday, 25  November	7:30 pm	Fairclose Hall, Newbury
Saturday, 6 December	6:30 pm	Fawley Church
Friday, 12 December	7:30 pm	St John's Church, Newbury
Saturday, 13 December	7:30 pm	Methodist Church, Bridge Street, Hungerford

The programme included: And The Glory of the Lord - from Handel's Messiah Do You Hear What I Hear - arranged by Harry Simeone Emmanuel is Coming! - Nancy Price & Don Besig Hurry, Hurry Yonder - Davenport & Wagner It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas - Meredith  Willson Jingle Bell Rock - arranged by Teena Chinn O Sing to the Child - Brazilian Folk Melody Run, Run Shepherds! - Anna Laura Page Silver Bells - from The Lemon Drop Kid What You Gonna Call Him? - African-American Spiritual plus Audience Carols

 

Spring 2003
Date	Time	Venue
Tuesday, 13 May	7:30 pm	Lambourn Court, Newbury
Friday, 16 May	7:30 pm	St John's Church, Newbury
Tuesday, 20 May	8:00 pm	Aldermaston Parish Church
Thursday, 22 May	7:30 pm	St Nicolas Hall, Newbury

The programme included:- Sansa Kroma What a wonderful world Now is the Month of Maying Ye Little Birds Banquet Fugue Hoagy Carmichael When the foeman bears his steel Summer Time The Water of Tyne Vilia All through the Night Phantom of the Opera Please click here to read a letter sent to the Editor of the "Newbury Weekly News".

 

Christmas 2002
Date	Time	Venue
Saturday, 23rd November	3.00 pm	TrIndledown, Great Shefford
Thursday, 5th December	7.30 pm	Fair Close, Newbury
Saturday, 7th December	3.45  pm	Coronation Hall, Kintbury
Saturday, 7th December	8:00 pm	St. Lawrence Church, Hungerford
Thursday, 12th December	7:30 pm	Lambourn Court, Newbury
Friday, 13th December	7:30 pm	St Mary's Church, Speen

The music our Christmas 2002 series of concerts was seasonal, both secular and sacred, and included:- Jingle Bells - arranged by Ray Charles Were You There On That Christmas Night - words and music by Natalie Sleeth Mister Santa (The Christmas version of Mister Sandman) -words and music by Pat Ballard, arranged by Ed Lojeski Come, Emmanuel (A Spiritual for the Advent Season) -  words by Don Besig and Nancy Price; music by Don Besig The Shepherds' Farewell - words by Paul England; music by Hector Berlioz Carol For The King (A French Christmas Chanson) -  words by Paul Wigmore; arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen Angels' Carol -  John Rutter Child of Peace (Traditional Polish Carol) -  additional words and music by Don Besig and Nancy Price; arrange by Don Besig Together At Christmas (A medley including Winter Wonderland, Let it Snow!, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and A Marshmallow World) -  arranged by Carl Strommen Christmas With Johnny Marks (A Holly Jolly Christmas, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree) - words and music by Johnny Marks Let us Sing - written and arranged by Harry Simeone; adapted from a poem by Christina Rossetti The Virgin's Cradle Hymn  - Edmund Rubber Together with traditional Carols for the Audience to sing!

 

SPRING 2002
Date	Time	Venue
Tuesday, 14th May	7.30 pm	Speen Village Hall
Wednesday, 15th May	7.30 pm	Lambourn Court, Shaw, Newbury
Tuesday, 21st May	7:30 pm	Aldermaston Parish Church
Friday, 24th May	7:30 pm	Fair Close, Newbury

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Christmas 2001
Date	Time	Venue
Monday, 3rd December	7.30 pm	Lambourn Court, Shaw, Newbury
Tuesday, 4th December	7:30 pm	Fair Close, Newbury
Wednesday, 5th December	7.30 pm	Speen Church
Thursday, 6th December	7.45 pm	All Saints Church, Reading
Friday, 7th December	7.30 pm	Shalbourne
Saturday, 8th December	7.30 pm	Boxford Village Hall

 

Christmas 2001 Programme

Vivaldi Gloria  Jazz Gloria  Joy Once in Royal David’s City  Do you hear what I hear Run Shepherds Run Jesus Child O Little town of Bethlehem  When will the little King come Baby, what you goin' to be Away in a Manger audience Can Santa make it through tonight Christmas in Your Eyes Cum Sancto Spiritu O Come all ye faithful

 

SPRING 2001
Date	Venue
Tuesday, 15th May	Speen Village Hall
Wednesday, 16th May	Lambourn Court
Friday, 18th May	Stockcross Village Hall
Saturday, 19th May	Fair Close, Newbury (in aid of Christian Aid)
Christmas 2000 We gave the following  CONCERTS OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC at
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St. Mark's Church, Englefield on Wednesday, 6th December at 7:45 pm in aid of the Cancer Research Campaign	St. Mary's Church, Shaw-cum-Donnington on Saturday, 9th December at 7:45 pm in aid of Choir and Church Funds
Speen Village Hall on Tuesday, 12th December at 7:45 pm	Notrees. Kintbury on Saturday, 16th December at 3:30 pm
We are also visited local Residential OAP Homes in Donnington and Shaw area to sing Carols from 6:30 pm, Tuesday, 19th December

 

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Spring 2000
We sang John Stainer's The Crucifixion  at St. John's Church, Stockcross on Saturday, 9th April 2000 and at St. Thomas' Church on Saturday, 15th April 2000; both starting at 7.30 p.m.
Please click on Poster to ENLARGE.	The Crucifixion - Is It Nothing To You? Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like My sorrow, which is done unto Me, where with the Lord hath afflicted Me in the day of His fierce anger. Please click here to read an article.

 

We also gave two concerts in Verona, Italy - click here for more information.

 

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