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Harrogate Male Voice Choir
Founded
1969
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Annual Concert - 16
October 2010 (with guests Dinnington Colliery Band)
Although last year the Harrogate Male Voice Choir
celebrated its 40th anniversary, this concert was officially the
choir's 35th Anniversary Concert which featured the Dinnington
Colliery Band which was recently featured in the BBC TV series A
Band for Britain.
The concert was as promised in the programme a "tour de force"
and included many old favourites such as Arthur Sullivan's
ballad The Lost Chord, one of the choir's best pieces of the
evening.
The choir, conducted by Bernard White, accompanied on the piano
by Avril Leeming, opened the concert with a selection of six
songs beginning with a rather restrained performance of Bring Me
Sunshine and ended with a vigorous rendering of Rhythm of Life
in which the diction was excellent and the modulations towards
the end of the piece were well managed.
The spiritual element in the choir's final group of songs was
quite uplifting and included the haunting melody of Leonard
Cohen's "Hallelujah" and the spiritual "I'm Gonna Walk".
To end the concert the choir and band combined to perform a
timeless favourite Morte Criste, a setting of the hymn When I
survey the wondrous Cross, arranged by Emrys Jones.
The encore was Parry's Jerusalem which the audience very much
appreciated.
The band items were introduced by their conductor Jonathan
Beatty and the choir items by John Dawson, baritone.
(from the Harrogate Advertiser)
40th Anniversary Concert -
24 October 2009

Norman Williams
Coun Geoff Webber Bernard
White
Jane Reeve & Jack Kent
Jane Reeve Pat Webber Avril Leeming Kay
Bromhead