Tuesday 5th December 2017
The Festival Choir sang at the Annual Soup Kitchen in the Royal Square at 1230
A Festival of Carols was held at St Thomas Roman Catholic Church at 8pm with a collection of £2400 taken in aid of Jersey Child Care Trust (on the occasion of their 20th Anniversary)
A film was taken of O Holy Night and it can be downloaded here;
JERSEY FESTIVAL CHOIR Director – William Millow
HOLMCHASE SINGERS Director – Angela Luce
ST. CECILIA ORCHESTRA Director – Derek Lawrence
ORGANIST Malcolm Whittell
PIANO ACCOMPANISTS Grace Garnier and Paul Matthews
TREBLE SOLOIST Oscar Luff
Fanfare
This is the Truth sent from above (Verse 1) – JFC
Once in Royal David’s City
Verse 1 – solo – Oscar Luff, Verse 2 – Holmchase Singers, Verse 3 –Festival Choir Verse 4 – ALL
Festival Choir
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (arr. Mac Huff)
The Little Road to Bethlehem (Michael Head)
On Christmas night, all Christians sing
A Cappella Brass
Ding, Dong Merrily on High (arr. John Rutter) –
Holmchase
Carol of the Bells (Mykola Leontovich, Arr. Peter J. Wilhousky) –
A Christmas Blessing (Philip Stopford)
O little town of Bethlehem
Orchestra
Troika from Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Sergei Prokofiev, arr. Derek Lawrence)
Festival Choir
A maiden most gentle (arr. Andrew Carter)
Nowell, Nowell (Jonathan Willcocks)
Joy to the World
Festival Choir
In the Bleak Midwinter (Philip Stopford)
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol (John Rutter)
Good King Wenceslas
Holmchase
Cradle Hymn (Kim Arnesen)
Minuit Chretiens
O come all ye faithful
Blessing by Monsignor Nicholas France
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