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A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR OF GUILDFORD
Councillor Nigel Manning
| am delighted to be here tonight as Mayor of
Guildford and | hope you are looking forward
|
to tonight’s Concert as much as | am.
Christmas
is
a
magical
time
for
families,
but
as
we
back
and
lead
to
Christmas,
sit
many
enjoy
tonight’s fabulous programme and the busy
up
we
should
also
remember that there are many people in our
local community, who will not find it easy to
Christmas, due to financial and
celebrate
other difficult circumstances.
We
are therefore very fortunate that in
Guildford there are a number of charities
working hard to meet the needs of these
individuals and
families, who
special times of the year.
might
otherwise struggle to enjoy such
By attending tonight you are supporting one such charity ‘The Mayor of
Guildford’s Local Distress Fund’, which provides small sums of money to
ease the strain of providing essential items during times of genuine financial
and personal difficulty; so | would like to thank you all for coming.
My very special thanks go to the Rotary Club of Guildford and The Vivace
Chorus for once again presenting ‘The Mayor of Guildford’s Christmas
Concert’ and by doing so, ensuring that the Mayor’'s Distress Fund can
continue to help many more local people.
| am also extremely grateful that the Rotary Club will be having a retiring
collection in aid of the British Heart Foundation, which is my own chosen
mayoral charity, at the close of tonight's concert.
May | take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy and Peaceful New Year.
PV omi
M
Councillor Nigel Manning
Mayor of Guildford
TONIGHT'S CHARITY
THE MAYOR OF GUILDFORD'S
LOCAL DISTRESS FUND
Established in 1971, the fund was originally known
as the Mayor of Guildford's Christmas and Local
Distress Fund.
It is a registered charity with a clearly-defined
purpose : to provide financial assistance to the
needy within Guildford Borough, particularly at
Christmas time.
The fund receives requests from all areas of the community and has
helped individuals and groups with a wide variety of needs.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY HELPING THOSE WHO
CANNOT AFFORD THE BASICS.......... such as..........
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Buying shoes and clothing for children from very poor families
e
Washing machines, Fridges, Cookers, and Kettles
for those unable to afford such necessities
e
Playgroup fees for less advantaged children
e
Modest holidays for families, following a trauma
Requests for assistance should come from a third party, such as a
Borough Councillor, Housing Officer or an official agency, like the
This helps
Citizen's Advice, Community Health or Social Services.
to ensure that your donations are spent wisely and that assistance is
given only to deserving cases.
WITH YOUR HELP, WE REALLY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Registered Charity number : 258388
THE MAYOR OF GUILDFORD'S CHRISTMAS CONCERT
featuring THE VIVACE CHORUS
Conductor : Jeremy Backhouse
Organist : William Nicholson
THIS EVENING'S PROGRAMME
Audience Carol
15th French, (arr.David Willcocks)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel!
Redeem thy captive Israel,
That into exile drear is gone
Far from the face of God's dear Son.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to Thee, O Israel.
Gentlemen only
O Come, thou branch of Jesse! draw
The quarry from the lion's claw;
From the dread caverns of the grave,
From nether hell, thy people save.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
Ladies only
O Come, O Come, thou dayspring bright!
Pour on our souls thy healing light;
Dispel the long night's lingering gloom,
And pierce the shadows of the tomb.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to Thee, O Israel
Gentlemen only
O Come, thou Lord of David's key!
The Royal door fling wide and free;
Safeguard for us the heav'n-ward road,
And the way to death's abode.
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel
O Come, O Come, Adonai,
Who in thy glorious majesty
From that mountain clothed with awe
Gavest thy folk the elder law.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.
(Samuel Scheidt)
A child is born in Bethlehem
In dulci jubilo (German trad. arr. Robert L. de Persali)
Audience Carol
(Este's Psalter 1592 : arr David Willcocks)
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around.
'Fear not', said he, for mighty dread,
Had seized their troubled mind,
Glad tidings of great joy | bring
To you and all mankind
To you in David's town this day
Is born of David's line
A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord,;
And this shall be a sign.
The heav'nly Babe you there will find
To human view displayed,
All meanly wrapped in swathing bands
And in a manger laid.
Thus spake the seraph, and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels praising God, who thus
Addressed their joyful song.
All glory be to God on high,
And to the earth be peace;
Goodwill henceforth from heav'n to men,
Begin and never cease.
Gabriel's Message
The Stable Door
Reading
(Basque carol, arr.J. Rathbone)
(Cecil Armstong-Gibbs)
'Something beautiful and new and strange’
by Clive Sanson.
Audience Carol
Read by Maggie Woolcock
(J.F.Wade ,(arr. David Willcocks)
O come, all ye faithful
Joyful and triumphant
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold him,
Born the King of Angels;
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord
God of God,
Light of Light,
Lo, He abhors not the Virgin’'s Womb;
Very God,
Begotten, not created,;
O come, let us adore him...
Sing, choirs of Angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above,
Glory to God,
In the highest:
O come, let us adore him...
Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
Born this happy morning,
Jesu, to thee be glory given;
Word of the Father,
Now in flesh appearing:
O Come, let us adore him.......
Choir
Coventry Carol
Every stone shall cry
(English trad. arr.Bob Chilcott)
(Will Todd))
INTERVAL
Wine, Soft Drinks & Mince Pies available
Choir
Star Carol
Child in a manger
Audience Carol
(John Rutter))
(Celtic trad. arr. John Rutter)
(Conrad Kocher arr. David Willcocks)
As with gladness men of old
Did the guiding star behold,
As with joy they hailed its light,
Leading onward, beaming bright,
So, most gracious God, may we
Evermore be led to thee.
As with joyful steps they sped,
To that lowly manger-bed,
There to bend the knee before
Him whom heaven and earth adore,
So may we with willing feet
Ever seek thy mercy-seat.
As they offered gifts most rare
At that manger rude and bare,
So may we with holy joy,
Pure, and free from sin's alloy,
All our costliest treasures bring
Christ, to thee our heavenly King,
Holy Jesu, every day
Keep us in the narrow way;,
And, when earthly things are past,
Bring our ransomed souls at last
Where they need no star to guide,
Where no clouds thy glory hide.
In the heavenly country bright
Need they no created light;
Thou its Light, its Joy, its Crown,
Thou its Sun which goes not down:
There forever may we sing
Alleluyas to our King.
Reading
The Big Day
from St Luke.
Choir
Read by Stephen Linton
No small wonder
(Paul Edwards)
A babe is born
(William Mathias)
Audience Carol
(English Trad. arr. David Willcocks)
God rest you merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this day;
To save us all from Satan's power,
When we were gone astray;
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
From God our Heavenly Father,
A blessed angel came,
And unto certain shepherds
Brought tidings of the same;
How that in Bethlehem was born
The Son of God by name;
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy.
The Shepherds at these tidings
Rejoiced much in mind,
And left their flocks a feeding,
In tempest, storm and wind:
And went to Bethlehem straightway,
This blessed babe to find
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
Choir only
But when to Bethlehem they came
Whereat this infant lay,
They found him in a manger,
Where oxen feed on hay;,
His mother Mary kneeling,
Unto the Lord did pray.
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
Now to the Lord sing praises,
All you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace;
This holy tide of Christmas
All others doth deface
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
Away in a manger
Jingle Bells
(WJ Kirkpatrick arr. Nigel Short)
(J Pierpoint arr. David Willcocks)
Address by the Mayor of Guildford
Councillor Nigel Manning
Introduced by the President of the Rotary Club of Guildford
Mr Terence Patrick
Audience Carol
(Charles Wesley : arr. Felix Mendelssohn)
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Glory to the new-born King:
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled:
Joyful all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies,
With the angelic host proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Glory to the newborn King.
Christ by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
Late in time behold him come
Offspring of a virgin’s womb:
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
Hail the incarnate deity!
Pleased as man with man to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! the herald-angels sing......
Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace !
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings;
Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Glory to the newborn King.
Encore
We wish you a Merry Christmas !
(English trad. arr. Arthur Warrell)
THE VIVACE CHORUS
FIRST SOPRANOS :
Selam Adamu, Francis Bamber, Helen Beevers, Joanna Bolam,
Rebecca Kerby, Susan Norton, Robin Onslow, Gillian Rix, Sarah Smithies,
Joan Thomas, Hilary Vaill
SECOND SOPRANOS :
Jacqueline Alderton, Ginny Hefferman, Isobel Humphries,
Krystyna Marsden, Isabel Mealor, Michelle Mumford, Alex Nash,
Alison Newbery, Alison Palmer, Kate Peters, Barbara Tansey,
Valerie Thompson, Christine Wilks
FIRST ALTOS :
Barbara Barklem, Monika Boothby, Jane Brooks, Amanda Burn,
Lois McCabe, Rosalind Milton, Lilly Nicholson, Gill Perkins,
Linda Ross, Lesley Scordellis, Carol Sheppard, Jo Stokes,
Hilary Trigg, Maggie Woolcock
SECOND ALTOS :
Valerie Adam, Geraldine Allen, Evelyn Beastall, Sylvia Chantler,
Elizabeth Evans, Jo Glover, Kay McManus, Catherine Middleton,
Pamela Murrell, Prue Smith, Rosey Storey, June Windle
FIRST TENORS :
Bob Bromham, Owen Gibbons, Rosie Jeffery, Martin Price,
Chris Robinson, John Trigg
SECOND TENORS :
Peter Butterworth, Tony Chandler, Simon Dillon, Stephen Linton,
Peter Norman, Jon Scott
FIRST BASSES :
John Bawden, Phil Beastall, Jeremy Johnson, Malcolm Munt,
Chris Newbery, Peter Pearce, Chris Peters, Allan Rose,
David Ross, Philip Stanford
SECOND BASSES :
Norman Carpenter, Geoffery Forster, James Garrow,
Stuart Gooch, Richard Wood
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ABOUT THE VIVACE CHORUS
Vivace Chorus is a flourishing,
ambitious
and
adventurous
choir based in Guildford, which
aims
to
have
fun
performing
and sharing great choral music.
The choir has come a long way
since it began in 1946 as the
Guildford
and
Philharmonic
now
has
an
§
Choir,
enviable
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reputation for performing first-class concerts across a wide range of musical
repertoire.
Particular
successes
include
a
sell-out
performance
in
May 2011
of
Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’, at the Royal
Albert Hall.
A highly acclaimed performance of Britten’s War Requiem took
place in November 2012, followed by another Royal Albert Hall success in
May 2014, when we performed the Verdi Requiem. In 2017, we celebrated
our 70th birthday with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall.
Since 1995, Vivace has thrived under the exceptional leadership of this
evening’s conductor, Jeremy Backhouse. Jeremy's passion for choral works
and his sheer enthusiasm for music-making are evident at every rehearsal
and performance.
In addition to our own concerts in Guildford and London, we also sing in
various charity concerts and, with our regular orchestra, the Brandenburg
Sinfonia, take part in the Brandenburg Choral Festival each year in St.
Martin-in-the-Fields. We also like to take our music-making overseas and
have toured to France, Italy, Germany and Austria. After a ‘home tour’ in
the Cotswolds last summer, we are now preparing for a tour of the Baltic
States in June 2018.
We're a friendly and sociable choir that enjoys singing traditional choral
classics alongside the challenge of contemporary and newly-commissioned
music. We are always very happy to welcome new members, so if you
would like to try us out, do come along to any of our regular rehearsals on
Monday evenings at 7.15 in the Millmead Centre, Millmead, Guildford.
Please contact our membership secretary Jane Brooks for more information
at membership@vivacechorus.org and for more information, visit our
website,
vivacechorus.org
@VivaceChorus.
or
follow
us
on
and
JEREMY BACKHOUSE
Jeremy is one of Britain’s leading choral
conductors.. He began his musical career
in Canterbury Cathedral where he was
Senior Chorister.
In 1980 he was
appointed Music Editor at the RNIB,
where he was responsible for the
transcription of print music into Braille.
He has worked for both EMI Classics and
later Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers
as a Literary Editor, but now pursues his
career as a freelance conductor.
Jeremy has been the sole conductor of
the internationally-renowned chamber choir Vasari Singers since its
inception in 1980. Since winning the prestigious Sainsbury’s Choir of the
Year competition in 1988, the Vasari Singers have performed regularly at
concert venues and cathedrals throughout the UK and abroad. Jeremy and
Vasari have broadcast frequently on BBC Radio and Classic FM, and have
a discography of over 25 CDs on the EMI, Guild, Signum and Naxos labels.
They have recently launched their own Vasari Media label with a recording
of Jonathan Rathbone’s 'Under the Shadow of His Wing', which they
premiered in 2014. A recent recording of Rachmaninov's 'All-Night Vigil’
was released in October 2017.
In January 1995, Jeremy was appointed Music Director of the Vivace
Chorus. Alongside the standard classical works, Jeremy has conducted the
Vivace Chorus in some ambitious programmes, including Howells’ 'Hymnus
Paradisi', Szymanowski's 'Stabat Mater', Mahler's ‘Resurrection’ Symphony
(No. 2), Prokofiev's 'Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible', Mahler's
‘Symphony of a Thousand’ (No. 8) and Verdi’'s 'Requiem' in the Royal Albert
Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
In January 2009, Jeremy took up the post of Music Director of the Salisbury
Community Choir. In 2013 the choir celebrated its 21st Anniversary with a
major concert in Salisbury Cathedral, featuring the world premiere of a
specially-commissioned community work by Will Todd The City Garden'.
They subsequently toured with it to Lincoln (2014) and Guildford (2015).
A commission for a major new work from Alexander L'Estrange is planned
for November 2018.
THE ROTARY CLUB OF GUILDFORD
The Rotary Club of Guildford was established in
1922, when only six clubs existed in the whole of
Great Britain.
Today, there are 1,840 Rotary
Clubs in the UK, with over 55,000 members and
1.2 million members in 33,000 Clubs word wide.
Besides the '1922' Guildford Club, there are two
other Rotary Clubs in the town - the Guildford
District Club, founded in 1975 and the Guildford
Chantries Club, founded in 1991.
One
of
the
Club's
earliest
fundraising projects in the 1920s
was its 'Big Brother' scheme, which
was launched to help the town's
youngsters, who had lost their
fathers during the First World War.
In 1927, the Club embarked on a
project to raise enough money to
install radio sets in the wards of the
Royal Surrey County Hospital, so
the patients could 'listen in'.
During the Second World War, one of the Club's most memorable
humanitarian events was dealing with the reception of the soldiers from the
beaches of Dunkirk, when special troop trains stopped at Guildford Station
in June 1940.
In the 1960s, the Rotary Club of Guildford played a significant fundraising
role to establish the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
In 1965 the Club
successfully lobbied government departments to establish the University of
Surrey in Guildford in 1966.
Formerly the Battersea College of
Technology, the University celebrated its 50th Anniversary in October last
year.
To mark the centenary of the Rotary movement in 2005, Guildford's three
Rotary Clubs established their 'Guildford Historic Trail' around the town
centre and presented it to the Borough of Guildford. The trail takes visitors
and tourists on a circular tour for a closer look at some of the town's famous
landmarks.
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Last October, the Club raised £4,885 for
Terry Waite's charity 'Hostage UK', when
the former
hostage
gave
a thought
provoking talk to an audience of 200 people
in Holy Trinity Church about his 5 years as
a prisoner in the Middle East from 1987 fill
1991. 'Hostage UK' supports hostages and
their families by providing specialist and
pastoral care, both during
kidnap has taken place.
and
after
a
During the year, our Club, with other Rotary
Clubs in the district, have raised funds for
Woking's Sam Beare hospice and last
month, the Club held its annual Bridge Day
and raised over £2000 for their chosen
Terry Waite
charity Cherry Trees, a respite home from home in East Clandon, that
provides short breaks for children and young people with learning, physical
and sensory disabilities, giving their families a much-needed break.
The Club continues to run heats for local Guildford schools in their annual
Rotary Youth Speaks competition, which is part of a national contest
designed to foster pupil's vital public speaking skills.
Other continuing
projects include the Club's Jaipur Limb Project, Rotary International's
'End Polo Now' campaign and the Club's own Global Sight Solutions Eye
Project, which has established specialist eye hospitals in India and Africa to
cure blindness in the developing world.
And tonight, the Mayor's Christmas Concert, organised by Guildford Rotary,
is still raising funds for the Mayor of Guildford's Local Distress Fund - a
registered charity that gives small grants of money to Guildford people in
genuine need.
Despite being in one of the most affluent parts of Surrey, Guildford still has,
nonetheless, pockets of deprivation, where people struggle to make ends
meet on a daily basis, needing the most basic items, that most of the rest of
us just take for granted.
The Rotary Club of Guildford has now been established for nearly a century
and continues to welcome new members. The Club can be contacted
through its website at www.rotaryclubguildford.co.uk
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THE MAYOR'S CHOSEN CHARITY
The
Mayor's
Mayoral
year
chosen
is
Foundation (BHF).
charity
the
for
British
his
Heart
Most of us have
known someone who has suffered a
heart attack or indeed lost a friend or
loved one through heart disease.
over
50
vyears,
the
British
For
Heart
Foundation has pioneered research,
has transformed the lives of
milions
of
people
living
with
which
el m =
g
Foundation
cardiovascular disease.
Before the 1970s, heart attacks were
poorly understood.
as there were no
medicines to treat them and most victims lost their lives.
Thanks to
BHF Professor Michael Davis, whose valuable research actually
proved that heart attacks are caused by a blood clot in the coronary
artery, this ground breaking work has paved the way for clot-busting
drugs.
Now, although each year, 175,000 people in the UK may still
suffer a heart attack, around 7 out of 10 people survive. thanks to the
modern treatments built on BHF discovery
Locally, the Guildford and Godalming branch of the British Heart
Foundation has been a vanguard organisation, whose volunteers
have worked tirelessly for many years to raise much needed funds to
support the work of the cardiovascular department at the Royal
Surrey County hospital.
These volunteers have raised thousands
and thousands of pounds, which has paid for heart monitoring and
other essential equipment for the hospital.
The Mayor continues to work in partnership with these volunteers to
support
their
achievements.
work
and
help
capitalise
on
their
outstanding
Tonight, a retiring collection in aid of the British Heart
Foundation will take place as you leave Holy Trinity Church, so
Thank you.
please support this very worthwhile charity.
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FORTHCOMING CONCERTS BY
THE VIVACE CHORUS
St. Martin-in-the Fields - 7pm
BAROQUE TREASURES
including works by Handel, Bach and Albinoni
The Vivace Chorus & The Brandenburg Sinfonia
Conductor : Jeremy Backhouse
Saturday, March 3rd 2018
Guildford Cathedral : 7.30pm
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Rotary Club of Guildford would like to thank the following people
and organisations for their help in staging this year's
Mayor of Guildford's Christmas Concert
The Members of the Vivace Chorus : Jeremy Backhouse
William Nicholson : Canon Robert Cotton
The Parish of Holy Trinity and St Marys, Guildford
The Guildford Dragon : The Surrey Advertiser
The Inner Wheel Club of Guildford
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Holy Trinity Church
High Street
Guildford GU1 3RR
Guildford Rotary Club presents
The Mayor of Guildford's Christmas Concert
10 December 2017 19:00
Transaction: 495485 Ticket: 64425
Adult
£10.00