TMVC Annual Concert

Annual Concert 2009

On Saturday 25th July we gave our Annual Concert in our home vill­age. The venue was the Cath­edral of the Peak, more prop­erly the Par­ish Church of St John the Bap­tist, Tideswell.

The weather was set fair and warm, and all three choirs arr­ived in good time (well, I did notice a few strag­glers). The audi­ence were keen too, as all the best seats had been occu­pied by seven o’clock – still half an hour to go!

Once we’d filed into position, Malcolm Bennison gave a brief wel­come and announ­ced those mem­bers of our Music Team who would be present.

We sang our intro­duc­tory piece, God’s Choir (very suit­able for the set­ting), with Mary Cobbold at the organ. After that Christopher Ellis accom­panied the remain­ing pieces of all three choirs.

The programme was per­for­med by, first, TMVC, then the two Stockport St Peter’s church choirs (the adult choir and the junior choir on stage together), and fin­ally TMVC roun­ded the even­ing off with a medley of songs from Les Miserables.

During St Peter’s choirs’ section Eileen Rigg, their Musical Director, desc­ribed some­thing of their work, from which it was clear that they were more accus­tomed to perfo­rming in church than on stage. They didn’t need to worry, though, as that’s where they were! And their sound was just beau­tiful and the app­lause enthus­iastic.

The Front of House team were out in force in uni­forms to match ours, ensur­ing the smooth run­ning of the con­cert – which they did with their usual unob­trus­ive eff­iciency – and making sure Dennis didn’t forget anything!

Here is the complete programme:

  • TMVC: God’s Choir (arr. Simmons)
  • TMVC: New York, New York and My Way(arr. Humphries
  • TMVC: Let It Be Me (arr. Simmons)
  • TMVC: Softly As I Leave You
  • TMVC: Vive l’Amour
  • TMVC: The Lord Is My Shepherd (arr. Goodall)
  • St Peter’s Adult: Ching-a-Ring Chaw (Copland)
  • St Peter’s Junior: Every Time I Feel the Spirit (arr. Unterseher)
  • St Peter’s Adult: Down by the Sally Gardens (arr. Deale)
  • St Peter’s Junior: Silver Trumpet (arr. Gregory)
  • St Peter’s Adult: Amazing Grace (arr. Rutter)
  • St Peter’s Junior: Didn’t It Rain (arr. Neaum)
  • Interval
  • St Peter’s both: For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter)
  • St Peter’s Junior: Cantate Domino (Althouse)
  • St Peter’s Junior: Irish Blessing (Chilcott)
  • St Peter’s Adult: Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
  • St Peter’s Junior: Tales from the Vienna Woods (Strauss)
  • St Peter’s Adult: Rogers and Hammerstein on Broadway (arr. Huff)
  • TMVC: I Dreamed a Dream (arr. Arch)
  • TMVC: Empty Chairs and Empty Tables (soloist Tyler Cooper)
  • TMVC: Bring Him Home (soloist Maurice Hargreaves, arr. Leavitt)
  • TMVC: Stars (soloist Tyler Cooper)
  • TMVC: Do You Hear the People Sing? (arr. Lojeski)
  • TMVC: When the Saints Go Marching In

Afterwards the local inn was full of happy concert-goers and per­form­ers, with plenty of humour and con­ver­sation. Not to men­tion hot air!

See you next year!

PRH 26/7/09