Recent Events 2010

Kirkpatrick-Durham Concert

Nicola’s Children

Rosy and James

Ensemble

J Higgs – clarinet, J McCormick – violin, D Milligan – violin,

J Hesselgreaves – viola, J Dowswell – cello, S Marsh – oboe,

S Smith - P ian o

Charpentier : Te Deum Prelude

Clarinet Quartet

J McCormick - violin, J Dowswell - cello, J Hesselgreaves - viola,

J Higgs - clarinet

Stamitz: Op.19 No 2 – 1^st Movement

Ensemble

Elgar : Salut d’Amour

Vaughan Williams : Sea Songs

String Quartet

J McCormick – violin, D Milligan – violin, J Dowswell – cello,

J Hesselgreaves – viola

Mozart : K157 1^st and 3^rd Movements

Ensemble

Gilbert and Sullivan : Mikado Medley

Barbershop Quartet

JDowswell, J Hesselgreaves, J Higgs, J McCormick

 Honey    ♪   Wild Irish Rose    ♪   Let me call you Sweetheart

Ensemble

Brahms : Hungarian Dance No 5   

Strauss : Radetzky March

INTERVAL REFRESHMENTS

Nicola and Blackie

Scottish Songs 

A Little Jazz

Piano Trio

S Smith – piano, J McCormick – violin, J Dowswell – cello

Haydn : Gypsy Rondo 3^rd Movement

Ensemble

Gilbert and Sullivan : Pirates Medley

Oboe Quartet

S Marsh – oboe, J McCormick – violin,

J Hesselgreaves - Viola, J Dowswell- Cello

Mozart;K370 : 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Movements

Ensemble

Harry von Tilzer : Bird in a Gilded Cage

Harry Lauder : Songs Medley

Lehar;Vilia;

Shalom

Barbershop Quartet

Goodnight Ladies

On Saturday evening Kirkpatrick Durham Church was once again the scene of what is becoming an annual musical concert.  We were regaled with music, classical, jazz and folk, and some fine singing from performers who spanned the ages. 

Firstly a trio of youngsters entertained us; James McCullough on the piano and his little sister Jessica on the bells gave us Jingle Bells, followed by Rosie Walsh-Kirk singing Walking on the Air from The Snowman in a clear sweet voice.  Rosie then treated us to a delightful piano composition of her own, a jazzy little number.

The core of the evening was performances by an ensemble of musicians, playing such diverse instruments as the clarinet(John Higgs), oboe(Sally Marsh), violin(John McCormick, Donald Milligan), viola(John Hesselgreaves), cello(Johnny Dowswell), piano(Susan Smith) and guitars(Nicola Black and Blackie).

The first half of the evening was heavily weighted toward classical composers, Charpentier, Stamitz, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Mozart, leavened with a medley of Gilbert and Sullivan tunes and closing with a new venture for the intrepid Johns, a Barbershop Quartet - don’t give up the day job, boys!

After the interval Nicola and Blackie gave us her lovely Scottish songs, poems by Hugh MacDiarmid set to music by Nicola including The Bubblyjock, Scunner and the haunting To Christine.  To demonstrate her versatility Nicola sang a wonderful jazz number, Summertime to warm us on a chilly winter evening, and closed with her own composition, Simon’s Bay.

More classical music followed, and then the audience were invited to play a part, singing some golden oldies from Sir Harry Lauder, and the even older Bird in a Gilded Cage.

We were sung out into the night by the Barbershop with Goodnight Ladies.

Vintage ensemble