Choral Festival

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30861, 21 September 1965, Page 9

Choral Festival

Five of Christchurch’s smaller choral groups, and a large choir of young people, whose ages range from eight to 20, will present the seventeenth annual Community Choirs Concert in the University Hall on Wednesday next week, under the sponsorship of the Christchurch Civic Music CounciL The Ciristchurch Junior Choral .Society, conducted by George Martin, will present a group of madrigals, folk songs, a part-song “The Traction Engine,” and the J. S. Bach chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” This is the first time this young group has taken part in the Community Choirs Concert. Under Myra Thomson, the Somerfield Townswomen’s Guild Choir will present carols, a welsh lullaby and

arrangements by Baring Gould and R. Jacques. The South Brighton Choral Society, conducted by Geoffrey Thorpe, will present works by Bach, Mozart and Schubert. The Aeolian Choir, under Eric Voyce, will include an arrangement by Vernon Griffiths of “Golden Slumbers,” “Ye Banks and Braes,” and “The Little French Clock.” Charles Martin will conduct the Addington Workshops W.E.A. Choir in works by Bach, Ireland and Charles Wood, and arrangements by Vernon Griffiths and C. L. Martin. The Risingholme Choir, conducted by Albert Wilson, will present spirituals, folk songs and a sea shanty. The programme will condude with Vernon Griffith’s arrangement of “Turn Back, O Man” by the massed choirs, under John Ritchie.