We had a fantastic celebration to start the holiday season this year, with our annual “Anthems for Advent.” A collection of words and music, we come together every November to bring some joy to the season, and raise funds for a chosen charity. This year we raised £500 for Send a Child to Hucklow!
Please find below the video of our Advent concert!
Programme:
Michael Praetorius “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen” (“Lo, how a rose e’er blooming”)
Hannah Marsden (flute), Catherine Coyne (alto flute), Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano)
Opening Words & Welcome
Rev. Cody Coyne
Lighting of the Chalice & Send a Child to Hucklow
Vince McCully, President of the General Assembly of Unitarian & Free Christian Churches
Andy Beck “Snow on Snow”
Cross Street Choir, Hannah Marsden (flute), Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano)
Joseph Coelho “If All The World Were Paper”
Vicki Dawson
Janet & Julie Wolstenholme “Return Again”
Janet & Julie Wolstenholme (voice, guitar & frame drum)
Nicolas Saboly, arr. by Bill Holcombe “Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella”
Catherine Coyne (flute), Aaron Breeze (piano)
Laurie Lee Christmas “Landscape”
Ann Peart
“The Holly and the Ivy”
Congregation, Cross Street Choir, Aaron Breeze (piano)
Aaron Breeze “Orbiting Gas Giants”
Aaron Breeze (piano & video)
Filippo Schreier & Aldo Bottero (music); Maisie Rey (words) “Tango des Roses”
Allen Christey-Casson (tenor), Aaron Breeze (piano) Schumann “Cello Concerto (Second Movement: Langsam)” Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano)
Michael Kyriacou “Planetary Garden”
Michael Kyriacou (voice & piano)
Carl Sagan Excerpt from “Pale Blue Dot”
Marian Price
arr. Catherine Coyne “For the Beauty of the Earth / See Amid the Winter’s Snow”
Cross Street Choir (soloists: Peter Sampson, Robert Foreman, Marian Price) Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano)
Environmental Pledge & Prayer
Rev. Cody Coyne & Congregation
Pause for Reflection
Jonathan Dove “My Love is Mine”
Phyllis Alden (soprano)
Howard Blake “The Snowman Medley”
Hannah Marsden (piccolo/flute), Catherine Coyne (flute), Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano), Cody Coyne (tambourine)
Adolphe Adam (music) & John S. Dwight (words) “O Holy Night”
Robert Foreman (solo: baritone), Hannah Marsden (flute), Catherine Coyne (alto flute), Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano)
John Betjeman “Christmas”
Peter Sampson
Amanda McBroom “The Rose”
Cross Street Choir, Hannah Marsden (flute), Daria Dorothea (cello), Aaron Breeze (piano)
Closing Words & Thanks
Rev. Cody Coyne
“Deck the Halls”
Congregation, Cross Street Choir, Aaron Breeze (piano)