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Programme for Bruton:

O How Glorious is the Kingdom – Philip Stopford
Ave Verum Corpus – W.A.Mozart
Panis Angelicus – Cesar Franck
Anvil Chorus – Giuseppe Verdi
Tantum Ergo – Anton Bruckner
Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Faure
Organ solo – Vesper Voluntaries op. 11 – Edward Elgar
played by Peter French
Seal Lullaby – Eric Whitacre
A Million Dreams – Pasek, Paul and MacHuff
Your Song – Elton John
The Snow – Edward Elgar
Goodnight Sweetheart – Hudson, Carter and Shaw

Ruth McKibbin (Soprano) & Peter French (Piano)

Richard Wagner – Dich, teure Halle from Tannhäuser

CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

Philip Stopford – Jubilate

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Sicut cervus

Anton Bruckner – Locus iste

Krystl Ride (Soprano), Ruth McKibbin (Soprano), Philip Styles (Tenor) & Peter French (Piano)

W A Mozart – Quoniam tu solus from Mass in C Minor, K.427

CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

Morten Lauridsen – Sure on This Shining night

Edward Elgar – The Snow

Traditional, arr. Stephen Leek – Morning Tide

ROS Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

ABBA – Super trouper

ROS Voices & CitySound Voices, conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

Carly Simon – Let the River run

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CitySound Voices

Conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

• Exsultate Justi – Lodovico Grossi da Viadana
• Oh How Glorious – Philip Stopford
• O Quam Gloriosum – Tomás Luis de Victoria
• Te Deum – Franz Joseph Haydn

Mendip Male Voice Choir

Conducted by Jamie Knights, accompanied by Phillip Evry

• What a Wonderful World – George Weiss and Bob Thiele, Arranged by Mark Brymer
• Shall We Gather at the River – Robert Lowry, Arranged by Alwyn Humphreys
• For the Beauty of the Earth – Words by F. S. Pierpoint, Music by John Rutter
• Anthem from ‘Chess’ – Words by Tim Rice, Music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus
• What Would I Do Without My Music? – Harry Middlebrooks and Bruce Belland, Arranged by Alwyn Humphreys

Interval

Mendip Male Voice Choir

Conducted by Jamie Knights, accompanied by Phillip Evry

• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – from ‘Mary Poppins: The Musical’, Richard B Sherman and Robert B Sherman, Additional Words and Music by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, Arranged by Mac Huff
• Let All Men Sing – Keith Christopher
• Bring Him Home – Words by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, from ‘Les Misérables’, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Arranged by John Leavitt
• Shining – Kate Courage
• Rhythm of Life – Words by Dorothy Field, from ‘Sweet Charity’, Music by Cy Coleman, Arranged by Richard Barnes

CitySound Voices

Conducted by Ruth McKibbin, accompanied by Peter French

• Let the River Run – Carly Simon, Arranged by Craig Hella-Johnson
• Shenandoah – Traditional, Arranged by James Erb
• Sure on This Shining Night – Morten Lauridsen, from ‘Nocturnes’
• Underneath the Stars – Kate Rusby, Arranged by Voces 8
• Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen, Arranged by Mac Huf

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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