“Give us this day: songs of life and hope” – A showcase of the diversity of the Trinity Singers
Local choir Trinity Singers, based in Churchill, is well-known for the wide array of music
offered in its programmes. On Saturday 25th October, at All Saints Church Wrington, the
choir presents a programme enGtled “Give us this day: songs of life and hope”, which will
again showcase this diversity.
There are stories of life, love and faithlessness, presented in arrangements of folksongs by
John RuNer and others. These include variants on the archetypal ‘Young man meets maid,
pursues maid, betrays maid’ tale, as well as the rather less common ‘Old lady drowns
husband in the river’.
There are stories of struggle, resistance and hope, including the popular spirituals “Steal
away”, “Go down, Moses” and “Were you there?” There is Ethel Smyth’s sGrring suffrageNe
anthem “March of the Women”, plus the first performance of a new work, “Sympathy”,
specially wriNen for the concert by local composer Nick Varley. And there is the work from
which the concert takes its Gtle: “Give us this day”, Ward Swingle’s beauGful call to “cherish
the earth before it dies”.
The concert starts at 7.30 and is conducted by Andrew Tyrrell and accompanied by Claire
Alsop.
Tickets, £12.50, are available through the choir website www.trinitysingers.org.uk from any
member of the choir, or on the door.
FIRST HALF
• arr RuNer – The Sprig of Thyme, nos 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11
• arr Vaughan Williams – The Turtle Dove, Linden Lea
• arr AJT – The NighGngale, Early one morning, The Rich Old Lady
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SECOND HALF
• Swingle – Give us this day
• Smyth – March of the Women (SSA)
• Varley – Sympathy (TBB)
• arr Luboff – Deep River
• arr AJT – Were you there?, Steal away, Go down, Moses
AddiGonally there will be a folksongish instrumental item in the first half (viola & piano –
possibly couple of Vaughan Williams’ Studies on English Folksong, but yet to be finalised).
For further informaGon please contact Bob Shapland 07769 813489
