Saturday 10th December 2022

Guisborough Methodist Church
Guisborough

Conductor ~ Rebecca Johnson

Accompanist ~ Nicola Tayler

The Programme

Audience carol* - The First Nowell
In Festo: O Regem Coeli
Natus est nobis (Victoria)
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Carter)
Salvation Army Band: Four items
Audience carol - Once in Royal David’s City
Hodie (Poulenc)
O little one sweet (Bach)
Audience carol - Angels from the realms of glory

Interval

Refreshments were served by the UK Charity, the Friends of Murambinda Hospital

Audience carol - See amid the winter’s snow
Mid-winter (Chilcott)
Candlelight (Rutter)
Salvation Army Band: Three items
Audience carol - Good King Wenceslas
Holy Night (Adams)
Ding dong merrily on high
Christmas day (Holst)
Audience carol - Hark the herald angels sing
Twelve days of Christmas
Finale: We wish you a Merry Xmas

*Audience carols were accompanied by the Salvation Army Band.

Saturday 22nd October 2022

St Nicholas Church
Guisborough

Conductor ~ Rebecca Johnson

Accompanist ~ Nicola Tayler

Programme of Music

Handel ~ Zadok the Priest
Tavener ~ The Lamb
Haydn ~ Te Deum
Rachmaninov ~ Vespers 1 and 6
Handel ~ The King shall Rejoice (Coronation Anthem)

Interval
Refreshments were served by supporters of the
Friends of Murambinda Hospital

Parry ~ I was Glad
Mozart ~ Veni Sancte Spiritus
Schubert ~ Sanctus
Vivaldi ~ Gloria
Britten ~ The National Anthem

Saturday 2nd July 2022

St Nicholas Church Hall,
Bow Street, Guisborough

Conductor ~ Rebecca Johnson

Accompanist ~ Nicola Tayler

Programme of Music

All in the April evening ~ Robertson
Sing joyfully ~ Byrd
Veni Sancte Spiritus ~ Mozart
How calmly the evening ~ Elgar
Fly singing bird ~ Elgar
The Lake of Innisfree ~ Bantock
Diret-on ~ Lauridson

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The Shepherd ~ Jenkins
Cante Domino ~ Jenkins
Irish Blessing ~ Chilcott
A Gaelic Blessing ~ Rutter
West Side Story (medly) ~ Bernstein
When the Saints go marching in ~ Rutter

Saturday 11th December 2020

Guisborough Methodist Church
Westgate, Guisborough

Conductor ~ John Dixon

Accompanist ~ Helen Kirk

Guisborough Choral Society made a welcome return last weekend with their Christmas Concert at the Guisborough Methodist Church. This was their first performance since the Covid-19 pandemic had halted live entertainment. The Choir was joined in the evening by the Prior Pursglove (College) Vocal Ensemble.

The Choir and Ensemble performed eight popular Carols where the audience was encouraged to join in and savour the atmosphere and the Concert opened with ‘O Come all ye Faithful’. Many of the other songs performed were also familiar Christmas songs and carols, and the Choir was in superb voice as usual. A solo performance of Schonberg’s, ‘Bring him home’, from Les Miserables was brilliantly given by Prior Pursglove Ensemble member, George Manley, which brought sustained applause from the audience and the choir members. He is studying music and psychology at the Pursglove College.

The Prior Pursglove Ensemble also sang ‘Gaudete’ which was particularly appropriate as the following day was the third Sunday of Advent in the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity and is known as Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete, of Swedish origin, was made famous by the group, Steeleye Span, in 1972. The Ensemble comprised students Luke Booth, Lauren Hinton, Alisha Robinson, Anna Robson and, of course, George Manley. The concert ended with the Choir offering the roundel, ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’.

Previous Christmas Concerts by the Choral Society were accompanied by the Guisborough Salvation Army Band, but that was not possible this year so accompaniment was provided on the piano by Ms Helen Kirk, who is subject leader for Music at the Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College. She conducts the College Ensemble and is musical director for their annual productions.

This year, the Guest Conductor was John Dixon, who had been a private music teacher at Teesside University, retiring as a Senior Lecturer in Music in 2014. This evening’s Concert was dedicated to the memory of the late Julie Stevens, a choir stalwart.

Saturday 14th December 2019

Guisborough Methodist Church
Westgate, Guisborough

Conductor ~ Rebecca Johnson

Bob Chilcott - On Christmas Night

I Wish You Christmas - Rutter

Harp ~ Sarah Paterson

Saturday 6th July 2019

St Nicholas Church Hall
Bow Street, Guisborough

Conductor ~ Rebecca Johnson

Sunday 7th April 2019

St Paulinus Church
The Avenue
Guisborough

Conductor ~ Rebecca Johnson

Le Cygne - The Swan ~ Mats Lidström
Silent Woods ~ Antonín Dvorák

Conductor: Rebecca Johnson

Accompanist: Helen Kirk

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The Guisborough Salvation Army Citadel Band

The programme included many favourite carols, including familiar ones
for audience participation, band pieces and seasonal readings.

A concert to commemorate the Centenary Anniversary of Armistice Day with choral works and readings in keeping with national
observances marking the end to the four year commemorations of the centenary of the First World War.

Saturday 3rd November 2018

at St Nicholas Parish Church, Guisborough

Conductor: Rebecca Johnson

Accompanist: Helen Kirk

Programme

Douglas Guest: For the Fallen - unaccompanied

Peace ~ Robert Graves

Élégie ~ Soloist : Alison Gulbis ~ Gabriel Fauré

Armistice Day 1918 ~ Robert Graves

The Cenotaph ~ Charlotte Mew

Edward Elgar: Lux Aeterna - unaccompanied

The Wind on the Downs ~ Marian Allen

Photograph ~ Peter Kocan

Michael Tippett: Spirituals from A Child of our Time - unaccompanied

Forgotten Dead, I Salute You ~ Muriel Stuart

W A Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus - with orchestra

W A Mozart: Requiem Mass - with orchestra

(Choir items in bold)

CHORAL GEMS
THROUGH THE AGES

Saturday 9th December 2017

Guisborough Methodist Church

Conductor: Rebecca Johnson

Accompanist: Helen Kirk

Violins: Clare Gale and Dan Hands

So a great English composer of the Tudor and Stuart age - William Byrd - will rub shoulders with the most celebrated choral composer of the internet generation - Eric Whitacre. The audience will be taken through the ages with an 18th century work by Mozart, 19th century classics from Mascagni (the Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana), Fauré and Bruckner (including Locus iste), and the 20th century represented by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Rachmaninoff (selections from the Vespers). Norwegian Ola Gjeilo (with Northern Lights) and American Eric Whitacre are two of the finest 21st century choral composers

Whitacres phenomenal Sleep will be the evening's final highlight. Composed in 2000 as a conventional work for a 16 person choir in Austin, Texas, this stunningly beautiful piece has been at the centre of the amazing 'virtual choir' movement, where the home-recorded videos of thousands of individual singers from as many as 70 countries are brought together in a single video performance uploaded to YouTube. At last check the latest version of Sleep had nearly two and a quarter million views on the video-sharing website!

Christmas Concert

Handel's Messiah

Saturday 9th December 2017

Guisborough Methodist Church, Westgate

Conductor: Rebecca Johnson

The closing concert of our

50th year

Date

There'll Always Be An England.
A wide variety of powerfully dramatic, beautiful and moving music by Benjamin Britten, Edward Elgar, John Gardner, John Rutter and Ralph Vaughan Williams, inluding Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana and Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest.

Fauré ~ Requiem
The choir was joined by the Dishforth Military Wives Choir, with their own contributions.

Robert Schumann ~ Requiem in D flat, Op. 148; Der Königssohn; Nachtlied
Jan-Dismas Zelenka ~ Magnificat
Anton Bruckner ~ Motets

Karl Jenkins ~ The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace
John Rutter ~ Psalm Fest

Midsummer Melodies
A programme of light music for a summer's evening

Crowning Glory - Music to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
Handel ~ The King Shall Rejoice
Blow ~ Let Thy Hand Be Strenghthened
Purcell ~ I Was Glad
Handel ~ Zadok the Priest
Vaughan Williams ~ The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune
Wesley ~ Thou Will Keep Him in Perfect Peace
Vaughan Willaims ~ O Taste and See
Mozart ~ Coronation Mass in C

Vivaldi ~ Gloria
Zelenka ~ Magnificat
Haydn ~ Te Deum

With contributions from Innominata

John Rutter ~ Magnificat
Eric Whitacre ~ Five Hewbrew Love Songs

With contribution from:
Tees Valley Youth Choir
Innominata String Quartet

Christmas Concert
Benjamin Britten ~ A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Contributions from Lockwood Brass

Antonín Dvorak ~ Stabat Mater

Benjamin Britten - Saint Nicolas (Op 42 A Cantata)
John Tavener - Song for Athene
Thomas Morley - Sing We and Chant It.
C. Hubert H. Parry - I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me.
Thomas Tallis - If Ye Love Me

Michael
Summers

St Nicholas
Church

Mozart - Requiem
Britten - Choral Dances from Gloriana

Michael
Summers

St Nicholas
Church

Duruflé - Requiem
Duruflé - Quatre Motets

Michael
Summers

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