Our first concert of 2023 was on Saturday April 1st (no fooling!) in St. Catherine’s Church, Hatcham, London SE14 as part of this wonderful eclectic and multi-cultural festival. The theme of the concert was to chart the development of male voice singing through the ages from plainchant and early sacred music through madrigals, marching songs, shanties and spirituals to barbershop, Broadway, the King’s Singers and Pop, under the experienced musical direction of Deborah Miles-Johnson, and accompanied by Paul Webster. We also have a great young soprano soloist, Leilani Barratt, to add some jazz and glamour.
Programme
Performers
Imperial Male Voice Choir
Leilani Barratt Soprano
Deborah Miles-Johnson Musical Director
Paul Webster Accompanist
Programme
C Armstrong Gibbs Tiger, Tiger
Guido d’Arezzo Ut queant laxis
Antonio Lotti Miserere Mei
Josquin des Prez El Grillo
Mátyás Seiber Marching Song
arr. Moses Hogan Plenty Good Room
arr. Alice Parker & Robert Shaw What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?
Percy Grainger arr. Deborah Miles-Johnson Brigg Fair
Charles Villiers Stanford Sailing at Dawn
Sir Arthur Sullivan arr. Doris Arnold The Lost Chord
Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque
Adapted by Aaron Copland The Boatmen’s Dance
arr. Arthur E Hall My Evaline
Gaetano Donizetti Two songs from La Fille du Régiment: Rataplan, Chacun le sait
Billy Joel arr. Roger Emerson The Longest Time
George Gershwin Embraceable You
George Gershwin arr. Jeremy White Summertime
Frank Loesser Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat
Stephen Sondheim arr. Michael Martin Send in the Clowns
