FestiveLea - Charity Christmas Carol Concert with the Lea Singers

Lea Singers

A festive evening of uplifting popular carols, mulled wine, and mince pies with the Lea Singers. This is a fun evening for all the family with audience participation and a 'choose your own carol competition', as well as a fantastic charity raffle.

This is a charity concert and there are two beneficiaries. Firstly the Harpenden Music Foundation which promotes the study and performance of music by young people in Hertfordshire and secondly the Lea Singers Bach's St Matthew Passion dramatisation concert which is to take place in St Albans Cathedral on Saturday 13th February 2016 with Thomas Guthrie directing and James Gilchrist as Evangelist.

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• Lea Singers (chamber choir)
• Nina Vinther (mezzo-soprano)
• Tom Winpenny (organ)
• Benjamin Goodson (conductor)

1. O come, all ye faithful, 'Adeste fideles' - Traditional, arranged by Sir David Willcocks
2. Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Ralph Vaughan Williams
3. It came upon the midnight clear - Traditional English, adapted by Sir Arthur Sullivan
4. A spotless rose - Herbert Howells
5. Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Elizabeth Poston
6. A babe is born - William Mathias
7. See Amid the Winter's Snow - Sir John Goss, arranged by David Willcocks
8. Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah HWV 56 - George Frideric Handel
9. Jingle Bells - Traditional, arranged by Sir David Willcocks
10. In the bleak midwinter - Gustav Holst
11. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - John Gardner
12. Have yourself a merry little Christmas - Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, arranged by Peter Gritton
13. Hark! The herald angels sing - Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by Sir David Willcocks
14. We wish you a merry Christmas - Traditional, arranged by Arthur Warrell