OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY AND

THE OLDHAM BAND (LEES) PRESENT

SUNDAY JUNE 19th

at 7.30pm at

THE MIDDLETON ARENA

Popular music

for a summer evening for

voices and brass.

OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY

PATRON: Jeffrey Lawton CHAIRMAN: Fred Jones Vice-Chair: Margaret Hood Vice-President: Nancy Murphy Hon. Secretary: Ray Smith Hon. Treasurer: John Price

Music Director: Nigel P. Wilkinson Accompanist: Angela Lloyd-Mostyn Conductor Emeritus: John Bethell MBE

Librarian: Sue Howard Ticket Sec.: Lionel Dossett / Margaret Hallam Patrons’ Sec.: Sylvia Andrew Membership Sec.: Brenda Buckley Uniform Co-ordination: Val Dawson Webmaster: David Baird

Concert Manager: Fred Jones

Promotions Group: Sue Howard, (Chair), David Baird, Margaret Hood,

Fred Jones, Maggs Martin.

LIFE MEMBERS Eva Dale, Alan Mellor, Nancy Murphy, Peter Quan, Hilda Rosebury, Eric Youd

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

As I write this, I can still remember the fortnight or so when we had our Summer, and it is good to be able to enjoy a Summer Serenade tonight, to re-live those "lazy, hazy,

crazy days"! Tonight, along with our friends the Oldham Band (Lees) we offer you a varied programme

of music - from Mozart and Brahms to Rodgers and Rutter - to help you relax and enjoy yourself.

We love to hear your comments, so after the show, why not pop into the Arena Bar, enjoy a goodnight drink, and have a chat with our members before you go home? (I'm pretty sure you'll find me there ! )

Thank you for your support over our past Season, and we look forward to welcoming you to our 2016/17 concerts, details of which appear in this programme.

If you've not had them yet, enjoy your Summer holidays.

Fred Jones

OUR GUESTS:

THE OLDHAM BAND (LEES)

Even though the ‘Oldham Band (Lees)’ is a relatively young band, its history can be traced back to 1873 when the ‘Glodwick Band’ was formed. In 1955 the band became the ‘Lees and Glodwick Band’ and later amalgamated with the ‘Cobden Chadwick Band’. The band reformed as ‘Oldham Brass 97′ and when the band was reduced to a dedicated group of just 8 players, it was agreed that John Collins would take over the helm as Musical Director and bring with him several young players from ‘Bare Trees Community Band’. After months of planning and preparation, the band had its first rehearsal in August 2004 at the Royal British Legion in Lees. ‘The Oldham Band (Lees)’ was born. The band is now thriving and is busy performing in concerts and contests nationwide. The band enjoyed a lot of success in the lower sections, including 5 consecutive Area Championship wins and 4 Pontins’ titles. The band is currently competing in the Championship section and recently achieved third place in The Senior Trophy at The British Open Spring Festival and has gained a promotion into The Senior Cup at next year’s contest. At the 2016 Whit Friday contests last month, the band finished fifth overall due to consistently finishing in the top 5 at all the 8 contests entered. Grammar School.

Mrs. S. Andrew Mr. A.F. Bacon Mr. & Mrs. D. Baird Mr. & Mrs. C. Barratt Mr. G. Buckley Mr. F. Cadman Mr. M.A. Clegg Mrs. V. Dawson Mr. & Mrs. W. English

Mr. L. Hallam Mrs J. Hamnett Mrs. N. Hartley Mrs. B. Hatfield Mrs. M. Hirst Mr. & Mrs. H.V. Hood Mr. A.P. Howarth Mr. & Mrs. F.S. Jones Mrs. A. Joyce Mr. A. Mellor

Mrs. I. Mottley Mr. & Mrs. W. Murphy Dr. & Mrs. P. Quan Mr. J. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. A. Rosebury Miss J. Tunn Mr. P.T. Waters Mrs. B. Williams Mr. & Mrs. E. Youd

OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY 2016 - PATRONS

Programme

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OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY

Conductor: Nigel P Wilkinson

Accompanist: Angela Lloyd-Mostyn

Opening chorus from The Bartered Bride (Smetana)

The Soldiers chorus from Faust (Gounod)

THE OLDHAM BAND (LEES)

Conductor: John Collins

Cortege from Mlada (Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Langford)

The Girl I Left Behind Me (Trad. arr. Langford)

CHOIR AND BAND

Pavane (Fauré)

THE CHOIR

How lovely are thy dwellings fair (Johannes Brahms)

Ave Verum Corpus (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

CHOIR AND BAND

Sanctus from the Deutsche Mass (Franz Schubert)

THE OLDHAM BAND (LEES)

I'll Walk With God (Nicholas Brodszky arr. Richards)

The Acrobat. (J.A. Greenwood)

Trombone Soloist: Les Webb

CHOIR AND BAND

A Gaelic Blessing (John Rutter)

INTERVAL

2nd Half

THE OLDHAM BAND (LEES)

James Cook - Circumnavigator (Gilbert Vinter)

The Galop from William Tell (Rossini arr.?)

Xylophone Soloist: Simone Herbert-Moores

OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY

Rodgers and Hammerstein Selection

South Pacific Medley

Some enchanted evening

Bloody Mary - Bali Hai – Younger then Springtime –

I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair –

There is nothing like a dame Soloists: Gerard Marsden, Rodney Porter & Vincent Birtles

Carousel - You’ll never walk alone

THE OLDHAM BAND (LEES)

Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie/Pinkard arr. Sykes)

Tuba soloist: Josh Flynn

Cristo Redentor (Ponsford)

THE CHOIR

O when the Saints (arr. by John Rutter)

CHOIR AND BAND

The Lord Bless you and keep you (John Rutter)

The Angelus from Maritana (Vincent Wallace)

OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY The 2015 -16 season has been another great success with two very contrasting concerts at the RNCM, and our now traditional Christmas celebration with tonight’s guests the Oldham Band (Lees). Back in November we sang an all Italian programme at the College including the Rossini Stabat Mater and popular operatic items by Verdi, Bellini and Mascagni. Our team of soloists would not have been out of place on any of the major European stage, and indeed our bass Henry Waddington was recently the winner of a prestigious International Award for his opera performances. Our thanks go to Kathleen Wilkinson for continuing to entice such top singers to join us. The Christmas concert was, as always, a happy occasion with a a wide variety of seasonal music performed in the splendid setting of Oldham Parish Church. More recently our spring concert featured music by 3 giants of the Romantic era, Brahms, Schumann and Dvorak. The Brahms is a great challenge and a “big sing” for any choir, so it was good that the choir got a welcome rest during the first half, and had the opportunity to hear our own accompanist Angela Lloyd-Mostyn perform the Schumann Piano Concerto, ably suported by our excellent orchestra. It was a day of mixed emotions for our conductor Nigel Wilkinson, who, due to the concert, was unable to be at Charlton to witness Burnley win the Championship, but he was still able to celebrate with us. The now biennial battle against relegation begins on August at and will mark his 50th season watching his home town team.

• We aim to sing / promote quality choral music with first class soloists and professional orchestral

accompaniment; and perform in some of the best regional venues including the RNCM Concert Hall.

• We are always keen to welcome new members and currently have vacancies in all sections.

• If you would like to sing with the choir please visit our website, contact Fred Jones on 0161 205 4638

or speak to any member of the choir

• Rehearsals are held every Monday evening in the Chadderton Town Hall.

• The annual membership fee is very low

• We are currently trying to increase the number of “non-singing” members to help with a range of tasks such as front of house at concerts, librarian and assistance with refreshments at rehearsals. If you can

volunteer in any of these capacities please approach any choir member and you will be warmly welcomed.

For full details visit: www.oldhamchoral.org.uk,

*** = 50 years service § = 30 years service + = 20 years service

SOPRANOS

LINDA ALLARDICE SMITH + LORNA ASHTON + HELEN BANHAM

CHRISTINE BIRKS + JILL BROMLEY §

BRENDA BUCKLEY § LINDA BUTCHER ALISON COATES

MARY COCKROFT BRENDA COLLINGWOOD

LYNN COTTON MARY CROSSLEY

EVA DALE *** VAL DAWSON

SUSAN DONOHUE CLAIRE ELLIS

FIONA FARAGHER MARGARET HALLAM + MARGARET HALLETT

JILL HAMNETT PATRICIA HEATON

FIONA HESTEN MARGARET HOOD § MARGARET JONES §

LYNNE KERSHAW BERYL KILPATRICK

SYBIL LAMB JUDITH LONGLEY

MARGARET MARTIN JUNE O’GRADY JOAN PEARTON SALLY POWELL

MAUREEN PRICE MARJORIE RICHARDS +

JULIA ROBINSON ELAINE SHAW +

JANEANE TAYLOR SHEILA TOLLEY

JACKIE TURNBULL MARGARET ULYATT

BRENDA WILDISH BARBARA WILLIAMS §

ANNE WILLIAMSON

ALTOS

JANET ALBISTON MARY ALMOND SYLVIA ANDREW § PAT ASHWORTH MARJORIE BARKER CAROL BEDFORD IRENE CADMAN +

ROSALIND CORSER § ANDREE COLLOFF MAGGIE CULKIN JO-ANNA DOBBS EDNA GILL

TRICIA GOLDEN SU GOLDTHORPE CHRISTINE GRIME § HELEN HALLIWELL MURIEL HARDY

BEVERLEY HARPER MAUREEN HARRISON

MARJORIE HIRST JULIE HOLLIS

ANN HOPE SUE HOWARD

SUE HUTCHINSON EILEEN JOHNSON ANN JOYCE

JANET LINDLEY RACHEL McHUGH

SUE MORRIS

IVA MOTTLEY NANCY MURPHY *** SUSAN PADWELL ANN PICKARD

BARBARA PLENDERLEITH MARGARET RAWLINS

HELEN RIGBY BRENDA ROBERTS PATSY RUKIN EILEEN SCOTT

BRENDA SHARPLES BARBARA STAMP CLAIRE SULLIVAN CAROL VAUDREY ELIZABETH WIENER

OLDHAM CHORAL SOCIETY 2016 TENORS

DAVID ALLEN

MEL BORSBEY MICHAEL CLARKE

DEREK CLUTTERBUCK BARRY COTTON LAWRENCE CROFT JOHN DEARDEN GILES DENNIS JOHN DOYLE

Wm. GERARD MARSDEN ALAN MELLOR § DAVID NICKSON RODNEY PORTER JOHN RICHARDS ALAN SCOTT JOHN SAXON PHIL SHAW + RAY SMITH

KEITH WIENER

BASSES

DAVID BAIRD § ALAN BARKER CHRIS BARRATT VINCENT BIRTLES PHILIP BLANCHARD IAN BUTTERWORTH MICHAEL CLEGG LIONEL DOSSETT MIKE EDMONDSON ERIC FALLOWS PETER GARRITY BILL HARDIKER GEORGE HARDY MALCOLM HARDY HENRY HOPE FRED JONES § PETER KERTON JOHN LIVESEY

STUART LONGLEY WILF MURPHY § JAMES OGDEN PAUL PASTORE JOHN PRICE TERRY QUINN DAVID SHIPP

ANDREW SUMMERS

AUTUMN CONCERT

With Linda Richardson (Sop) Simon Crosby-Buttle (Tenor) Dean Robinson (Bass) T he East Lancs Sinfonia

CHRISTMAS CONCERT FRIDAY 16th DECEMBER - OLDHAM PARISH CHURCH

WITH OLDHAM BAND (LEES)

SUNDAY APRIL 2nd 2017 www. oldhamchoral.org.uk

AT THE RNCM More details on

our website soon.

SUNDAY NOV 6th at 7.00pm 2016 at the RNCM

”When I think upon my God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen; and since God has given me a cheerful heart, it will

be pardoned me that I serve him with a cheerful spirit.” [Franz Joseph Haydn]