Main Performers | Carrie Tubb, Emily Shepherd, Dora Arnell, Walter Hyde, George Parker - vocals, H L Balfour - organ, R A Greir - pianoforte, Miriam Timothy - harp, Arthur Payne - violin |
Set List | Christmas Motet for Doble Chorus, 'Now Once Again Our Hearts We Raise', founded on an Ancient Chorale, Carol for Quartet and Chorus: 'In Dulci Jubilo', XVIth Century Melody, harm. R L de Pearsall (Emily Shepherd, Dora Arnell, Walter Hyde, George Parker), 'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind', Sir Hubert Parry (Walter Hyde), 'When Icicles Hang by the Wall', Sir Hubert Parry (Walter Hyde), Carol: 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen', trad., Carol: 'From the Cradle', arr. from a XVth Century Melody (Walter Hyde), Aria and Chorus: 'O Holy Night', Adolphe Adam, arr. John E West (Carrie Tubb), Carol: 'Jesus To Us, To God a Son', From the Aberdeen 'Cantus' (1662), arr. Sir Frederick Bridge, Choral Song: 'And Did Those Feet', (Jerusalem) Sir Hubert Parry, 'Nazareth', Gounod (George Parker, Miriam Timothy), Carol: 'The Shepherds Went Their Hasty Way', J F Barnett, Aria: 'Wings, White In The Dawn', adapted to Handel's 'Largo', Sir Frederick Bridge (Dora Arnell, Miriam Timothy), Carol: 'The First Nowell', trad. INTERVAL Motett: 'Whom Saw Ye, O Shepheards', Richard Dering (1618), Carol: 'A Babe Ys Borne I Wys', Sir Frederick Bridge, 'A Carol of Bells', Stanford (Emily Shepherd,), Carol: 'En Natus Est Emanuel', from Musae Sioniae, Pars VI., 1609, arr. Michael Praetorius, Carol: 'Remember God's Goddnesse', T Ravescroft (1611), Aria: 'Ave Maria', Bach, arr. Gounod (Carrie Tubb, Miriam Timothy, Arthur Payne, H L Balfour,), Carol: 'What Child Is This?', Air: 'Greensleves', 'A Christmas Song', Mr Wardle's Carol from Pickwick Papers, Sir Frederick Bridge (Walter Hyde), Quartet and Chorus: 'When The Crimson Sun Had Set', trad., arr. S S Greatheed (Emily Shepherd, Dora Arnell, Walter Hyde, George Parker), Carol: 'Good King Wencelas', Spring Coral of XIIth Century (Emily Shepherd, George Parker), Christmas Hymn: 'Adeste Fideles', 'O Come, All Ye Faithful' |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1916/45), Prospectus (RAHE/1/1916/46) |