Good work done tonight on four Carol Concert items. Our joint number with the Mechanics Band is the wonderfully stirring hymn 'How Great Thou Art'. The next number was a rather tongue-in-cheek version of 'The Twelve Days After Christmas' by Fredereick (sic) Silver. We did it with Phil rather more years ago than some of us care to remember.... Then John Rutter's 'Donkey Carol' (quite a challenging soprano part!) and finally a traditional Austrian carol, 'He smiles within his cradle', arranged by David Willcocks. Nice alto drone-type part in verses one and three.
We've been through all the items in the concert now; the next four weeks we'll be polishing them up to performance standard!
