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CitySound Voices

Conducted by Ruth McKibbin
Accompanied by Peter French
with special guests:
Alexander Johnson (Tenor)
Mark Blackham (Master of Ceremonies)
& NOS Voices (the charity’s “in-house” choir).

Concert Tickets (TBC): £10 Adults (16+), £5 Children (Under 16 yrs), £25 Family (4 persons). Tickets available from choir members and Bath Box Office: https://bathboxoffice.org.uk/ 

Once on Royal David’s City.

Verse 1 Soloist, Alexander Johnson, verses 3&4 with audience.

MC: Mark Blackham
Reading: Christmas by John Betjeman

CitySound Voices
Star Carol (Rutter)
O Nata Lux (Lauridsen)

NOS Voices
Jazz Gloria (Sleeth)
Ring Christmas Bells (Leontovich)
Carol: Joy to The World (Handel) with audience participation

CitySound Voices
Alleluia! (Reeves)
A Child is Born in Bethlehem (Stopford)

Guest speaker Maggie Biggs, NOS volunteer

https://nos.org.uk/get-involved/in-memory/star-appeal/

CitySound Voices & NOS
O Holy Night (Adams) – with soloist Alexander Johnson

INTERVAL

(Refreshments and NOS Christmas cards will be available for purchase at the rear of the church).

Tonight (Bernstein) – Alexander Johnson & Ruth McKibbin

CitySound Voices
Wintertide (Ola Gjelio)
The Snow (Elgar)
Carol: Jingle Bells(Willcocks) with audience participation

MC – Mark Blackham
Reading: The Twelve Days of Christmas – A Correspondence by John Julius Norwich

CitySound Voices
Carol: The Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas Blessing (Stopford)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Warrell)

With Music from CitySound Voices

Conductor: Ruth McKibbin,

Gustav Holst – I Love My Love
Edward Higginbottom – Down By The Sally Gardens
Ivor Novello – We’ll Gather Lilacs
Elton John – Your Song
Carly Simon – Let The River Run
Trad – Shenandoah
Henry Mancini – Moon River
Toto – Africa

CitySound Voices invited composer Philip Stopford to give a choral workshop on 23^rd June 2018 at St. Stephen’s Church, Lansdown.

Stopford, whose music is loved and performed by many choirs, led choir members from CitySound Voices, the wider Bath area and beyond, giving us the exciting opportunity to meet him in person and perform his music. The event was well attended, with all appreciating Stopford’s wit and humour as well as the wonderful opportunity to sing with him as as conductor.

Stopford is a composer of English sacred choral music as well as a choir director. He is known for accompanied settings of traditional Latin and English hymns and prayer and for contemporary a capella pieces. Three of his works have appeared in the Classic FM Hall of Fame.

Born in 1977, he began his musical career as a member of the choir at Westminster Abbey and graduated in music from Keble College Oxford. He served as a Choral Director of St. Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast and the Director of Ecclesium Professional Choir. Since 2016 he has worked at Christ Church, Bronxville, near New York in the United States.

Conductor: Ruth McKibbin,

Soprano soloist Krystl Ride

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Edward Elgar – The Snow 

Patrick Hawes – Quanta Qualia

Joseph Haydn – Te Deum

Morten Lauridsen – Sure on this Shining Night

John Rutter – I will Sing with the Spirit

Philip Stopford – Do not be Afraid

Traditional spiritual – Deep River

Judith Weir – I Love all Beauteous Things

Formed in 2012; Bath based CitySound Voices are an accomplished 30 voice ensemble with a diverse experience entertaining both nationally and internationally. City Sound’s repertoire ranges from Byrd to Bohemian Rhapsody!
Joining together to make music is one of the finest things a community can do. CitySound continues to draw people together continuing a musical tradition of enriching the lives of its members and the wider community.