Carols by Candle Light 17th Dec 2005 in Teddington

Carols by
Candle Light

7:30pm Saturday
17th December 2005
Landmark Arts Centre
Ferry Road
Teddington
TW11 9NN

Surrey Brass
Musical Director Robin Smith

in partnership with

The Chertsey Children's Chorus
Musical Director Carolyn Spencer

WITH CELEBRITY PRESENTER
Mike Burnside

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After three years of packed houses, everyone wanted us to do it again in 2005! Mark the Christmas Season in the Gothic Cathedral splendour of the Landmark Arts Centre in a family celebration programme of innovative and traditional music. Surrey Brass, Concordia, Chertsey Children's Chorus join together for a special festive event that everyone will enjoy.

The programme will be presented by Mike Burnside who will also give seasonal readings (both conventional and new!). Mike has been an actor/director for well over thirty years and his extensive credits include seasons at the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company among many others. His TV credits include: Commissioner Hicks in 'The Bill' (nine years), 'East Enders', 'Family Affairs', 'The House that Jack Built', and most recently 'The Alan Clarke Diaries'. Recent Films include 'Welcome to Ibiza', 'Silent Cry', 'The Plague', and 'Charlotte Grey'. Radio credits include numerous voice-overs on Independent radio and 'Daughters of Britannia' for Radio 4.

Concordia is a professionally directed, amateur chamber choir of approximately forty voices. Our repertoire spans over four centuries, from the Renaissance to the present day, and includes a wide range of sacred and secular music. The choir is based in Hampton Hill, Middlesex, on the outskirts of London, and rehearses in St. James's Parish Church, an elegant Victorian church with a fine acoustic. We perform in this church and also elsewhere, both in the UK and abroad.

Surrey Brass has rapidly developed a keen audience following numerous local events since their formation and inaugural Golden Jubilee Fanfare contest, airplay on BBC Southern Counties Radio, and appearances at RHC Wisley backing Alan Price and The Bootleg Beatles.

Chertsey Childrens' Choir is based at St Anne's School Chertsey and is run by Carolyn Spencer, the music coordinator at the school. There are 45 children in the choir at present, aged between 7 and 11. The choir rehearses once a week and it is a joyful affair with lots of movement as well as singing. I have a suspicion that the children come just for the cookies which kick start each rehearsal. but no matter, it keeps us all in good voice! The children are very excited about singing in the Landmark Arts Centre again and hope very much that you enjoy their contributions. There is a high profile on singing in the school and they have already brought out their first CD called "Songs from the Arc" - Carolyn Spencer

Carols by Candlelight will feature your favourite Christmas Music plus some pleasant new surprises. Everyone is encouraged to join in the singing of Carols.

Read what the audience said about last years concert!

Programme

Audience & Choirs	"Once in Royal David's City" - Traditional
Surrey Brass	"Christmas Fanfare"
Chertsey Children's Chorus	"Hurry Hurry" and "Hi Dom" - Traditional
Reading	A Seasonal Reading
and Surrey Brass	John Rutter "Gloria"
Audience Carol	"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - Traditional
	"Silent Night" - Paul Ayers
Reading	"The Twelve Days of Christmas" - John Julius Norwich
Surrey Brass	"Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" arranged by John Hughes [turn sound on to hear a clip now]
Audience Carol	"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" - Traditional
INTERVAL with MULLED WINE
Audience Carol	"O come all Ye Faithful" - Traditional
	O Magnum Mysterium
Chertsey Children's Chorus	"Drummers Carol" - with brass quintet
Reading	"Love Labour's Lost "- William Shakespeare
Audience Carol	"The First Noel" - Traditional
and Chertsey Children's Chorus	"Torches" - Traditional
Chertsey Children's Chorus	"Away in a Manger" - Traditional
Surrey Brass	"Festive Cheer" by Roger Harvey
Reading	"A Christmas Carol" - Charles Dickens
	"Bethlehem Down" - Peter Warlock
Surrey Brass	Selected nuts from The "Nutcracker" Suite - Peter Ilyitch Tchikovsky
Audience Carol	"Hark the Herald Angels Sing" - Traditional

Although we anticipate to play the listed music, in the listed order, the musical programme may be subject to change.
Expect unprogrammed additions for your enjoyment!

Tickets

Tickets available from the Landmark Box Office - 020 8977 7558

Please note tickets for this event are only available from the Landmark Box Office.

Venue Information

Landmark Arts Centre
Ferry Road
Teddington
TW11 9NN

020 8977 7558

landmarkinfo@aol.com

Landmark Arts Centre

The Landmark Arts Centre is housed in the former church of St. Albans at Teddington Lock, a magnificent French Gothic style building of cathedral proportions and acoustics. It was deconsecrated in the 1970's and is now a successful location for a range of artistic and cultural events. The centre has been used by the BBC, Channel 4 and Elizabeth Films.

The Landmark Arts Centre has excellent facilities for the disabled, including easy wheelchair access, toilet and parking facilities.

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Reviews

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Saturday 18th December 2004: Surrey Brass - Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington

Surrey Brass presented "Carols by Candlelight" - a selection of Christmas music together with the Wessex Chamber Choir and Chertsey Children's chorus under their musical director Robin Smith at the Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington on Saturday 18th December. This particular event is becoming a firm annual favourite in the Surrey Brass Calendar, confirmed by the sell out attendance of over 250. This former cathedral is exactly the kind of acoustic setting which Christmas music calls for and the walls echoed with the fine combined sounds of brass and voice.

The concert began at a markedly different acoustic level - an unaccompanied brave solo junior voice from the school choir breaking the silence with Once in Royal David's City. The pitch was held perfectly with just the right amount of (nervous) vibrato for the choir, brass and then audience to join in and set the tone for the evening - a testimony to some thorough preparation and coaching from the children's musical director, Carolyn Spencer.

Individual contributions from the three ensembles provided contrasting tones for the programme, punctuated by some excellent seasonal readings by the celebrity MC and presenter, Mike Burnside. Wessex Chamber Choir and Surrey Brass combined in antiphonal setting for Pinkham's Christmas Cantata and the rousing Willcock's fanfare and audience carol finale prompted an encore - Tchaikovsky's "Trepak" from the Nutcracker Suite, presented at Olympic pace by Surrey Brass.

I'm sure next years event will be sold out in early December - book early to avoid disappointment.
Surrey Brass' next concert is on 27th January at the Trinity College of Music - details at surreybrass.co.uk/events.htm

Steven Bishop

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7:30pm Saturday 17th December 2005 Landmark Arts Centre Ferry Road Teddington TW11 9NN

Surrey Brass Musical Director Robin Smith