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GUISBOROUGH CHORAL SOCIETY Music Director, Michael Summers Michael is establishing himself as one of the North East’s rising talents in Choral music. He is currently Director of Prudhoe Gleemen Male Voice Choir as well as Guisborough Choral Society. He has worked with National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, Felling Male Voice Choir and Northern Spirit Singers. He has taken numerous school choirs to the Music For Youth festival national finals and lectures on choral conducting at Durham University P.G.C.E. course. As a performer Michael has performed with such artists as Lesley Garrett, Black Dyke Mills Brass Band and Barry Manilow! Margaret Heaton Margaret has been our accompanist for several years, and on occasions directs our rehearsals when Michael is unable to be present. She is involved in the music at Great Ayton Parish Church, and has a wide knowledge of singers and orchestral players in the region, being also a contralto and a viola player. Since retiring from school music teaching she has maintained a successful pianoforte teaching practice. AUTUMN CONCERT and sung at Whitsun. It is a lively catalogue of the good activities of the Holy Spirit. The motet “O magnum mysterium” , which will be sung by the Northern Spirit Singers, was written at about the same time as “Lux Aeterna”. It is a mediaeval poem, set to music by many composers, and intended to be used in worship at the end of Advent. Sir Michael Tippett 1905-1998 Sir Michael Tippett, like the artists Picasso and Klee, felt the pain of the depression of the thirties suffered particularly by the labouring classes and unemployed people in Europe and America, and those oppressed by the pogroms of the Nazis in Germany. He used negro spirituals in his cantata A Child of our Time as symbols of all persecuted peoples, setting words in both English and German to the music. He was Music Director of Morley College, a college for working class students, and lived briefly in Boosbeck, where he was greatly moved by the sufferings of the miners and those unable to find work. In 1932 he wrote songs for a unique performance of John Gay’s The Beggars Opera, with the Boosbeck Male Voice Choir and other local people. These pieces were recently revived, and performed in Middlesbrough last year. Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872 – 1958 Saturday 16th October Programme to include Benjamin Britten: St Nicholas Mass Linden Lea, published in 1902, was the first song published by Vaughan Williams, before he started his great work recovering English folk songs Lux Aeterna PROGRAMME Introitus from the Requiem Mass Grant them eternal rest, Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them. A Child of our Time Choir and Soloists In te, Domine, Speravi from the Te Deum The spirituals we sing are these:- Thou didst overcome the sting of death and opened to all believers the kingdom of heaven. To the righteous a light has risen in the darkness. In thee, Lord, have I hoped; let me never be confounded Steal Away to Jesus Nobody knows the trouble I see O nata lux Go down, Moses By and by, I’m gonna lay down my heavy load Deep river, my home is over Jordan Jesus, born light of light, redeemer of the world, accept praises and prayers from your supplicants. Allow us to become members of your holy body. Veni, Sancte Spiritus Songs by the Northern Spirit Singers Alleluia William Byrd O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen With a Lily in Your Hand Eric Whitacre Armottoman Osa (The unloved orphan) Mia Makaroff Linden Lea Vaughan Williams A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square Sherwin arr Michael Neaum INTERVAL Refreshments provide by Guisborough Christian Aid Come, Holy Spirit, and send from heaven your ray of light. Come, father of the poor, giver of gifts, light of hearts, sweet guest of the soul; in labour, thou art rest, in heat, temperance, in grief, consolation. In the absence of thy spirit there is nothing harmless in man O light most blessed, cleanse what is dirty, moisten what is dry, heal the hurt, flex the rigid, warm the frigid, correct what goes astray. Grant to thy faithful thy sevenfold gifts, the reward of virtue, joy everlasting. Agnus Dei from the Requiem Mass Lamb of God, give them rest for ever; and may eternal light shine on them with your saints for ever. Alleluia , Amen. MUSIC OF OUR TIME GUEST PERFORMERS Some of us are old enough to have lived through most of the times when music has been made available to everyone, through the media of radio and records. Contemporary music includes jazz and opera, pop and oratorio, singers and instrumentalists. It addresses the most important needs of our human condition,, for dignity and affection, present day and everlasting bliss. Northern Spirit Singers Tonight’s programme includes pieces specially written for Yorkshire Ironstone miners and American Choral singers, English and Finnish peoples. Almost everything has been written in our lifetimes. Founded in 2000 by a group of friends in the National Youth Choir, Northern Spirit Singers have established themselves as one of the North’s leading choirs. They have won prizes in Choir Competitions and Music Festivals, took part in the opening of The Sage,Gateshead, and joined Lesley Garrett on three national tours. They have performed a series of concerts in Durham Cathedral, and recorded three CDs. They have been “Choir of the Day” at regional BBC choral competitions. Some of their members have sung unannounced alongside us in recent concerts, but this evening they sing with us in the Choral pieces and will also perform as a Chorale in their own right. Morten Lauridsen, Born 1943 Morten Lauridsen is an American composer who delights in poetry – in many languages – and the composition of choral music and songs. He was the Composer-in-Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994-2001 when he composed Lux Aeterna. Philip Greenfield calls him “ the composer of the most luminous, moving choral music currently working its way into the repertoire”. His musical background comes from Monteverdi, and Jazz. The words in Lux Aeterna come from the Latin of the Requiem Mass and two motets : O Nata Lux is an anonymous 10th Century hymn set for the Feast of the Transfiguration. Veni Sancte Spiritus, the so-called Golden Sequence, is attributed to Pope Innocent III or the Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton in the 13th Century, Andrew Christer Andrew is Director of Music and an organist at St John’s Church, Darlington. He is accompanist for the Cleveland Philharmonic Choir and the North Yorkshire Chorus, and has been a guest organist at St Paul’s Cathedral. He played for us at our 40th Anniversary Concert, and like us was a guest at the BBC Tees Christmas Concert in Coulby Newham last December. CHRISTMAS CONCERT Saturday 11th December