FROM PUB TO PULPIT – KIRKLEES YEAR OF MUSIC
Saturday 8 June 2023 7.30 pm
PROGRAMME
Holmfirth Choral Society Musical Director: Dr Geoffrey Lockwood
Accompanist: Malcolm Hinchliffe
Huddersfield Town Hall Borough Organist: David Pipe
HOLMFIRTH CHORAL SOCIETY
Although there was a choral society in Holmfirth in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the present Holmfirth Choral Society was founded in 1945, initially as Holmfirth Parish Church Choral Society, to perform at a benefit concert for victims of a catastrophic flood which had occurred in Holmfirth.
The concert was so successful that the choir's scope was widened and it has continued to the present. It is a non-auditioned choir, open to all singers who enjoy the repertoire, mostly of oratorios, masses, and similar music.
Its membership, currently around 55, is building up again following Covid; just prior to that it had reached an all-time level of almost 100 members.
The choir has traditionally performed regularly in Holmfirth's Civic Hall, often with orchestral accompaniment, but has also given concerts in various venues in the surrounding area, and is pleased to be performing again in Huddersfield Town Hall.
For Further Information
HOLMFIRTH CHORAL SOCIETY
FIRST HALF
Holmfirth Choral Society
Musical Director: Dr Geoffrey Lockwood
Accompanist: Malcolm Hinchliffe
Festival Te Deum – Ralph Vaughan Williams
My Soul, There is a Country – Hubert Parry
O Thou the Central Orb - Charles Wood
The Blue Bird – Charles Villiers Stanford
Antiphon: Let all the World – Ralph Vaughan Williams
BROOMDASHER and CORACLE will perform a selection from:
Coracle: Stoke In Uproar
Coracle: Down Ampney
Broomdasher: Spencer the Rover
Coracle: Sine Nomine/Mr Issacs Maggot
Broomdasher: Linden Lea
Broomdasher: Lovely on the Water
Coracle: Lovely Joan
Broomdasher: Lowlands of Holland
Broomdasher: The Ploughboy’s Dream
Coracle: Kings Weston
Broomdasher: Bushes and Briars
INTERVAL
Broomdasher and Coracle: The Keeper
FROM PUB TO PULPIT
Holmfirth Choral Society; David Pipe and Huddersfield Town Hall Organ; Broomdasher; Coracle and the Audience
Kingsfold: The Murder of Maria Marten and I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
Danby: Brisk Young Farmer and ‘Tis Winter Now the Fallen Snow (verses 1,2,3)
Monks Gate: Our Captain Calls and He Who Would V aliant Be