Penistone Paramount
7th December, 7.30-9.30pm (£10).
The Choir is a guest of Denby Dale Rotary at their annual Christmas Concert at the Paramount, also featuring Skelmanthorpe Band. Always well supported so get your tickets early!
Concert Programme
- Set 1 – Deck the Hall, Away in a Manger, Seasons of Peace, Let there be peace on earth, Candlelight Carol, Hallelujah.
- Joint with Band – Hail Smiling Morn.
- Set 2 – Masters in this Hall, Hush be Still, Anthem from Chess, Do you hear what I hear (+Ann Wilkes) 12 Days of Christmas, White Christmas.
- Carols – O come all ye faithful, Hark the Herald Angels Sing.
Christ Church, New Mill
21 December @ 7.00-8.30pm (£10)
The Choir’s annual Christmas Concert for New Mill.
Tickets available from 21st November, to order click on the button
here.
Again we welcome special guest Soprano, Charlotte Browne
- ALL: Once in Royal David’s city
- Choir: Hail smiling morn | Away in a manger | Seasons of peace | Masters in this hall
- SOLO : Charlotte Browne
- ALL : Carol – to be decided
- CHOIR: Deck the hall | Hush be still | When a child is born | Candlelight carol | O Holy Nightl (with Charlotte)
- RAFFLE:
- ALL: Carol – to be decided
- SOLO: Charlotte Browne
- ALL: O come all ye faithful
- CHOIR: 12 days of Christmas | Do you hear what I hear (with Charlotte) | White Christmas
- ALL: Hark the Herald Angels sing
We are also singing at Low Moor. Bradford, Monday
16 December 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm
The annual BASF Christmas concert
Roderick Williams has featured previously on the blog – choral singing. Lately, his radio4 podcasts outlined some social history behind singing – (clic on A Singer\’s Guide to Britain). Songs are about people and places and belonging. Whenever and wherever their origins they help us make sense of our world. Folk songs especially seem to define who we are. Among pieces of welsh singing, Billy Bragg talking about English identity and Robbie Burns, guess who pops up? Cuthbert and Lydia Noble, children of the famous Holme Valley Will Noble, with songs about the local area and dry-stone walling.
Barry Meeres and I share experiences of cycling a ridiculous distance up and down Holme Moss (clic on here for mountain bike challenge) and a dry-stone walling course up on Crosland Moor (clic on here for dry-stone walling). We enjoyed the walling.
Will Noble released an album of his favourites, including the Watter Rattle made infamous by non other than our Chairman, John Mallinson. Cuthbert and Lydia also feature. (For a review, clic on). The walls they repair in their day job have endured since the 18th century when the government sanctioned enclosures.
Clic here for an album sample
New Mill MVC are in concert at Huddersfield Town Hall with
The Temperance Seven on 12th October
\’Fats Waller wrote this oft-recorded jazz tune with lyricist Andy Razaf and composer Harry Brooks for the off-Broadway revue Connie\’s Hot Chocolates. Even though the narrator is lonely, he promises to stay true to his lover and he \”ain\’t misbehavin\” by staying out late or flirting with other women. Waller told Eddie \”Rochester\” Anderson (of Jack Benny fame) that he wrote the song on a miniature piano while in jail on an alimony charge. His lawyer sold the song to a publisher for $250 so Waller could pay back his alimony and get out of jail.\’
From
songfacts
\’“Ain’t Misbehavin” has resurfaced many times over the years and interpreted by many jazz artists, including Anita O’Day, Nat “King” Cole, Django Reinhardt and Dave Brubeck. It was also adapted as a rockabilly tune by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1957 and sung by actor Burt Reynolds in the comedy film Lucky Lady (1975).\’
From jazziz
We have just started rehearsing this song, as a joint item I think. It\’s a bit odd at the moment, but we\’ll get the hang of it. Quiet period for the choir just now.
October 12th
Town Hall Huddersfield
We have just had our AGM. Well orchestrated and brief.
Our secretary\’s report was interesting. We have recently discussed the Peterborough experience – several choirs developed and run by the musical director. And not just the music. He manages their various committees as well. Apparently our conclusion was the Peterborough set up was not all it was claiming and not a model New Mill wished to follow.
I didn\’t hear a formal strategic New Mill direction.
There were however several clear messages.
New Mill is a village choir.
Fellowship is the pivot around which the choir thrives.
Our repertoire will be entertaining.
