A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR OF GUILDFORD
I am very pleased that the Rotary Club of Guildford’s Carol Concert this afternoon is being held
in aid of the Mayor’s Distress Fund.
This Fund is used to provide relatively small sums of
financial assistance to residents of Guildford Borough who are in desperate need.
It could be that help is required to ...............
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To contribute to a holiday break for a child
or to meet a whole variety of other requirements. Before a donation is made, a check 1s always
made to determine that the person is in genuine need.
Deserving applicants are invariably
referred by statutory organisations like the Social Services, charities, councillors and others.
This is a very worthwhile cause and I thank you in anticipation of your generous response.
I take this opportunity to wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful Christmas.
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Councillor Keith Childs
Mayor of Guildford
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PROGRAMME
Please stand for the singing of the Audience Carols
Audience Carol:
Once in Royal David’s City
H.J. Gauntlett, arr.David Willcocks
Choir:
In dulci jubilo
(arr. Pearsall)
Hush! my dear, be still and slumber
(arr. Willcocks)
I saw three ships
(arr. Willcocks)
Audience Carol:
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Orchestra & Choir:
Extracts from The Messiah (Handel)
Orchestra:
Mazurka from Coppelia (Delibes)
Karlsbad Doll’s Dance (Plier)
Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
Audience Carol:
O Come all Ye Faithful
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Audience Carol:
The First Nowell
Orchestra:
Trepak and Waltz from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
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Thunder and Lightning Waltz (J. Strauss II)
Audience Carol:
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Choir:
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
(arr. Willcocks)
There is a flower (Rutter)
Here we come a-wassailing
Orchestra & Choir:
(arr. Rutter)
Sir Christémas (Mathias)
The Shepherd’s Farewell (Berlioz)
A Merry Little Christmas
(arr. Goff Richards)
THE ARRIVAL OF FATHER CHRISTMAS
accompanied by Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson)
Audience/Choir/Children:
Away In a Manager
(Verse 1 sung by the Children);
(Verse 2 sung by the Children and Choir);
(Verse 3 sung by everyone).
DISTRIBUTION OF PRESENTS TO CHILDREN
while the Orchestra plays
Chinese Dance and Dance of the Reed Pipes
from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
Audience Carol:
Hark! the herald angels sing
Encore:
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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AUDIENCE
Once in Royal David’s City
Solo
Once in royal David’s city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child.
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ our Saviour
Was born upon this day,
To save us all from Satan’s power,
When we were gone astray:
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.
Choir
He came down to earth from heaven
only
Who is God and Lord of all,
And his shelter was a stable,
And his cradle was a stall;
With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
From God our heavenly Father
A blessed angel came,
And unto certain shepherds
Brought tidings of the same,
How that in Bethlehem was born
The son of God by name:-
All
And through all this wondrous childhood
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.
He would honour and obey,
Love, and watch the holy maiden,
In whose gentle arms he lay;
Christian children all must be
Mild, obedient, good as he.
But when to Bethlehem they came,
Wherat this infant lay,
They found him in a manger,
Where oxen feed on hay;
His mother Mary kneeling,
Not in that poor lowly stable,
With the oxen standing by,
We shall see Him; but in heaven,
Unto the Lord did pray:-
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.
Set at God’s right hand on high;
When like stars his children crowned
All in white shall wait around.
Now to the Lord sing praises,
All you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood
Each other now embrace;
This holy tide of Christmas
All others doth deface:O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
O tidings of comfort and joy.
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O Come, All Ye Faithful
The First Nowell
O come, all ye faithful,
The First Nowell the Angel did say,
Joyful and triumphant.
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem;
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep,
Come and behold him,
On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.
Born the King of Angels:
O come, let us adore him,
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,
Born is the King of Israel.
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
They looked up and saw a star,
Christ the Lord.
Shining in the East, beyond them far,
And to the Earth it gave great light,
God of God,
Light of Light,
Lo! he abhors not the Virgin’s womb.
Very God,
Begotten, not created:
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.
Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above;
Glory to God
In the highest:
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.
And so it continued both day and night.
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,
Born is the King of Israel.
And by the light of that same star,
Three Wisemen came from country far,
To seek for a King was their intent,
And to follow the Star wherever it went.
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,
Born is the King of Israel.
This Star drew nigh to the north-west,
O’er Bethlehem it took its rest,
And there it did both stop and stay
Right over the place where Jesus lay.
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,
Born is the King of Israel.
Then entered in those Wisemen three,
Full reverently upon their knee,
And offered there, in His Presence,
Their gold, and myrrh, and frankincense.
Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,
Born this happy morning,
Born is the King of Israel.
Jesu, to thee be glory given;
Word of the Father,
Then let us all with one accord,
Now in flesh appearing;
Sing praises to our Heavenly Lord,
O come, let us adore him,
That hath made Heaven and Earth of nought,
O come, let us adore him,
And with His Blood mankind hath bought.
O come, let us adore him,
Nowell, Nowell, Nowell, Nowell,
Christ the Lord.
Born is the King of Israel.
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AUDIENCE
O Little Town of Bethlehem
But little Lord Jesus
O little town of Bethlehem,
I love thee, Lord Jesus!
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth,
And praises sing to God the King,
And peace to men on earth;
For Christ is born of Mary;
no crying he makes.
Look down from the sky,
And stay by my side
until morning is nigh.
Be near me, Lord Jesus;
I ask thee to stay
Close by me for ever,
and love me I pray.
Bless all the dear children
in thy tender care,
And fit us for heaven,
to live with thee there.
And, gathered all above,
While mortal sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love.
Hark! The Herald-Angels Sing
Hark! the herald-angels sing
How silently, how silently,
Glory to the new-born King;
The wondrous gift is given!
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
So God imparts to human hearts
God and sinners reconciled:
The blessings of his heaven.
Joyful all ye nations rise,
No ear may hear his coming;
Join the triumph of the skies,
But in this world of sin,
With the angelic host proclaim,
Where meek souls will receive him, still
Christ is born in Bethlehem.
The dear Christ enters in.
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Glory to the new-born King.
O holy Child of Bethlehem,
Descend to us, we pray;
Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
Be born in us today.
Late in time behold him come
We hear the Christmas angels
Offspring of a virgin’s womb:
The great glad tidings tell:
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
O come to us, abide with us,
Hail the incarnate Deity!
Our Lord Emmanuel.
Pleased as man with man to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Away in a Manger
Hark! the herald-angels sing
Glory to the new-born King.
Away in a manger,
no crib for a bed,
Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
The little Lord Jesus
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
laid down his sweet head;
Light and life to all he brings,
The stars in the bright sky
Risen with healing in his wings;
looked down where he lay,
Mild he lays his glory by,
The little Lord Jesus
Born that man no more may die,
asleep on the hay.
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth,
The cattle are lowing,
Hark! the herald-angels sing
the baby awakes,
Glory to the new-born King.
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THE ROTARY CLUB OF GUILDFORD
he Rotary Club of Guildford was formed in 1921 and was the fiftieth club to become established in Great Britain and Ireland. By the
early 1920s, the rapidly growing Rotarian movement boasted 100 clubs in the United States but only 6 in the United Kingdom.
Today, there are 1500 clubs nationwide with a membership of one million and 20,000 Rotary Clubs throughout the World. Besides the
original Guildford Club, there are two other Rotary Clubs in the Borough — The Guildford District and Guildford Chantries Clubs.
Guildford Rotary Club has carried out many fund-raising projects over the years and one of its first was the ‘Big Brother Scheme’,
which was launched to help youngsters who had lost their fathers during the First World War. From this, a local Juvenile Employment
Committee was formed in the 1930s, with a local Rotarian as Chairman. In 1927, another fund-raising scheme was organised by the
club and successfully raised enough money to place wireless sets in local hospitals.
Most memorable of all the wartime activities was that dealing with the reception of the Dunkirk survivors as they arrived home at
Guildford Station in the summer of 1940.
For five days, troop trains carrying 200,000 men stopped at the station and helpers from
Rotary, WVS, Round Table and the Salvation Army were on the platforms to meet the wants of the war-weary men.
Provisions
provided were 10,000 loaves, cakes and rolls; ham and ox tongue by the hundredweight; oranges in their thousands; over one million
cigarettes and paper and envelopes for the troops to write letters home.
Significant contributions have also been made to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and the University of Surrey. The first Vice-Chancellor
Dr. D.M. Leggett said in an address that “But for the action of Guildford Rotary Club, the University would never have materialised”.
Old folks dinners, charity dances, disabled shopping evenings and the Mayor of Guildford’s Carol Concert are just a few of the many
by local projects still undertaken the Guildford Rotary Club. Further afield, Rotarian doctors and dentists have voluntarily manned a
clinic for the treatment of the ‘Boat People’ in Hong Kong.
Calcutta to supply eye equipment to Calcutta Hospital.
At the present time, the club is raising money with the Rotary Club of
Rotary International, to which all the individual clubs are contributors, has
raised most of the money required to eradicate Polio throughout the World.
By the year of Rotary’s centenary in 2005, contributions
by Rotarians towards the global Polio campaign will be approaching $400 million.
THE GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
he Choir was founded by the Borough of Guildford in 1947 to perform major works from the choral repertoire. Since that time, the
Choir has grown both in stature and reputation and now can rightly claim its place as one of the foremost Choruses in the country.
The Choir grew to prominence under the batons of such eminent British musicians as Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley and Sir
David Willcocks. Sir David remains in close contact with the Choir as its current President.
As well as being well known in the South East for performing the set-pieces of the choral repertoire, the Choir has developed an
interesting specialisation in 20th Century British music and has recorded Gerald Finzi's “Imitation ofa Modern Immortality” and
Patrick Handley’s “The Trees So High” under the direction of Vernon Handley.
Notable achievements during last year’s season include an acclaimed performance of Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” with the Freiburger
Bach Choir in May 1998 and a rousing performance of Elgar’s “Dream of Gerontius”.
The Choir is currently enjoying the challenge that the recent arrival of a new Choral Director of Jeremy Backhouse’s stature brings.
Jeremy was appointed in January 1995 and has continued the tradition of attracting an ever-wider audience to the joys of choral music
with recent memorable performances of Howell’s “Hymnus Paradisi” and Britten’s “St. Nicolas”. The Choir plans to conclude their
challenging 1998/1999 season with an evening of French choral and organ music in aid of the Chase Children’s Hospice to be held at
Guildford Cathedral on Saturday, 29" May 1999.
THE GUILDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
he Guildford Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1919 by Claud Powell, who set out to provide the chance to hear good music in a
dozen or so towns around London, but only in Guildford did his idea really take root..
Acclaimed by the Morning Post as ‘this
very notable musical force’, his orchestra of amateur string players with professional assistance soon became known for its pioneering
of British music by composers like Ireland, Dyson, Parry and Stanford.
Over the years, many famous composers came to conduct their own works with the Orchestra, notably Elgar with his violin concerto,
Vaughan Williams with his Fifth Symphony and Roger Quilter with his Children’s Overture.
Other guest conductor’s have included
Adrian Boult, Arthur Bliss and Charles Groves. Known as ‘a man who could make a chair leg sing’, Claud Powell also directed the
Guildford Choral Society and was joint Director of the County School of Music with Dorothy Owen, the orchestra’s indomitable
administrator for over sixty years.
When Claud Powell died in 1959 after forty years at the helm, Ralph Nicholson directed the orchestra for the next three decades, with
fine musicianship and warm-hearted humour, enriched by his breadth of experience as a violinist, conductor and composer.
In 1990, the baton passed to Darrell Davidson, who has continued Ralph’s policy of encouraging young musicians.
It is significant
that the Guildford Symphony Orchestra has had only three directors in 79 years.
Of course much has changed during this period of time. What has not changed is the enthusiasm which has underpinned the idea of an
orchestra for Guildford players and audiences ever since 1919.
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He was Music Editor at the Royal National Institute for the Blind, transcribing print music to Braille, before moving to
EMI Classics to work as a Literary Editor. Since 1990, he has been a Consultant Editor for EMI and other companies and
a freelance musician.
In 1981, he became the first Conductor of the chamber choir the Vasari Singers with whom he has made several successful
recordings. From 1991 to 1995, he was Music Director of Streatham Choral Society and the BBC Club Choir.
In January 1995, he was appointed Chorus Director of the Guildford Philharmonic Choir and in April that year conducted
the BBC Singers in a programme of music by Lennox Berkeley, which was broadcast on Radio 3. He has since conducted
the same choir in broadcast programmes featuring the music of Holst, Rubbra, Massenet and Delibes.
Darrell Davison
arrell Davison was a music scholar at Charterhouse and later studied music at Cambridge, where he not only conducted
several orchestras but founded a new one. After winning the Sir John Barbirolli conducting competition in 1979, he
conducted the London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras and was commissioned to compose new works for
both of them. He has also been the principle cellist of the Ulster Orchestra.
In 1992, Darrell was appointed musical director of the Croydon Symphony Orchestra and of the Arthur Davison Family
Concerts at the Fairfield Halls, with which his father had been connected for many years.
He has been Musical Director of the Guildford Symphony Orchestra since 1990 and also conducts for the Epsom Symphony
Orchestra, the Haslemere Music Society and the Cambridge Orchestra.
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THE ORCHESTRA
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Rosemary Roberts
Karen Prince
Alan Thorpe
Paul Starbuck
(Leader)
Jane Bradbeer
Mary Howard
Wendy Ratcliffe
Raymond Wakefield
Anne Trant
Alison Leather
Elizabeth Neville
Hazel Tripp
Bev Fox
Linda Dyson
Norah Lydon
Rosemary Wisdom
Ann Williams
Wendy Innes
Gabrielle Kingaby
Jana Sima
Ian Wrenn
Josie Pitchforth
Rebecca Griffin
Beverley Morris
Caroline Jenks
Rebecca White
Susan Knight
Laurence Vine-Chatterton
Phebe Kynaston
Sarah von Schweinitz
Jessica Law
Leon Crampin
Astrid Clarius
Elizabeth Garrett
Emile Broekhuysen
Colette Pinion
BASSES
Jenny Abbott
Peter Hardcastle
Alison Marshall
HORNS
FLUTES
Ian Dow
Liz Porcher
Duncan Hollowood
Denise Janaway
Chris Kerse
Ruth Duncan
OBOES
Helen Hollowood
Elizabeth Driscoll
Sheila Hodson
Sylvia Pullen
PICCOLO
TROMBONES
Sandra Hyde
Richard Pyewell
Elaine Browning
TRUMPETS
TIMPANI
Darren Chapman
TUBA
John Daniel
Steve Browning
Wendy Pawsey
Catherine Mowatt
Rosemary Holcroft
Kate Feaviour
Andrew Fardoe
Jonathan Eley
Clare Barnes
David Jacob
CLARINETS
Teresa Woods
Tanya Scrivener
Karen Adlam
PERCUSSION
Donna Landowski
Robert Ball
BASSOONS
Andrew Norrs
Lesley Griffiths
Duncan Penkey
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Rotary Club of Guildford would like to thank the following for their help in the staging of this
afternoon’s concert:-
Guildford Borough Council
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Guildford Symphony Orchestra
The Surrey Advertiser
Mr. Jeremy Backhouse
Mr. Darrell Davison
Mr. Bill Bellerby
Mr. Ken Rowland
The Staff of the Civic Hall
and all the local businesses who supported this programme with advertising.
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The Guildford Symphony Orchestra
cordially invite you
to their next concert
Yalentine Classics
Sunday 14th February 1999
Guildford Civic, 3.00pm
in aid of the English Churches Housing Group
Beethoven:
Overture ‘Fidelio’
Rachmaninov:
Piano Concerto No. 2
Soloist Philip Smith
Mendelssohn:
Wedding March
Bizet:
Suite No.2 from ‘Carmen’
Khachaturian:
Romance
Tchaikovsky:
Suite ‘Sleeping Beauty’
Seats
Balcony £9, £8, £7; Stalls £6; Students/unwaged £3
Senior Citizens £4 (stalls only)
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