Sunday 19 December 2021, 2:00 pm Upper level Atrium at the Otago Museum
Conducted by DAVID BURCHELL
and MARK ANDERSON
City Choir Dunedin presents an hour-long programme of
Christmas music for the festive season.
Come along to this free performance (koha appreciated) to welcome
the spirit of Christmas at a time of joy and reflection.
The programme will include some old favourites like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "Joy to the World", some more unknown carols like "Alleluya, a New Work is Come to Hand" and a snippet from Handel's Messiah: "For Unto Us a Child is Born".
Thank you for sharing our music! We wish you
a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
For those intending to perform or attend Christmas Carols Live at the Otago Museum on 19 December, be aware the Otago Museum is a vaccine mandated building, and you will be required to have your vaccine pass validated at the entrance.
CAROLINE BURCHELL, soloist
MARK ANDERSON, assistant conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
Accompanists: Roland Storm and David Burchell
City Choir Dunedin will delight you with an hour-long programme of Christmas music at the Otago Museum.
Hear old favourites like "Once in Royal David's City" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and other less well-known treasures such as "The Shepherd's Farewell" from L'enfante du Christ, an oratorio by Hector Berlioz. The repetition of a few carols from Britten's hugely popular A Ceremony of Carols performed at our recent Christmas concert in the Town Hall is also on the propramme.
This event has become an annual favourite and is free!
Friday 20 December 6:00 pm Meridian Mall, George Street, Dunedin
DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
MARK ANDERSON, assistant conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
City Choir Dunedin will delight you with a 30-minute programme of Christmas music at Dunedin's Meridian Mall. This event is free!
Accompanists: Roland Storm and David Burchell
Christmas Carols @ Otago Museum
Saturday 21 December 1:00 pm Otago Museum
DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
MARK ANDERSON, assistant conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
City Choir Dunedin will delight you with an hour-long programme of Christmas music at the Otago Museum. This event is free!
Accompanists: Roland Storm and David Burchell
Saturday 22 December 1:00 pm Otago Museum, Atrium Level 1
Entry Free
DAVID BURCHELL, conductor
MARK ANDERSON, assistant conductor
CITY CHOIR DUNEDIN
Accompanists: Roland Storm and David Burchell
City Choir Dunedin presents an hour-long programme of Christmas music at the Otago Museum. In recent years this has become a popular event at the Otago Museum. Come early to get a good seat, and enjoy beautiful Christmas carols. Some you will know, but there will also be some delightful carols not heard quite so often.
City Choir Dunedin, 24 December 2016 (Photo credit Sean Waller)
City Choir Dunedin presented an hour-long programme of Christmas music at the Otago Museum on Saturday 24 December 2016. An enthusiastic and appreciative audience of about 300 people were there to enjoy the music, some singing along with the traditional carols!
Conductor: David Burchell
Assistant conductor: Mark Anderson
Accompanists: Roland Storm and David Burchell
Soloist: Caroline Burchell
The programme of Christmas music consisted of the following:
Once in Royal David’s City
God rest you merry gentlemen
Ding dong, merrily on high
O little town of Bethlehem
Silent night
For unto us a child is born (from Messiah by Handel)
Coventry carol
There were shepherds → Glory to God (from Messiah by Handel)
While shepherds watched (arr. David Burchell)
Fallt mit danken (from Christmas Oratorio by Bach)
O little one sweet
Chorale No. 23 (from Christmas Oratorio by Bach)
Hark! The herald angels sing
Good King Wenceslas
Deck the halls
We wish you a merry Christmas
I discovered a new composer (for me) today - heard this Christmas carol on the radio this morning and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread!
About the composer: John Milford Rutter CBE (born September 24, 1945) is an English composer, choral conductor, editor, arranger and record producer. In 1981 he founded his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, which he conducts and with which he has made many recordings of sacred choral repertoire (including his own works), particularly under his own label Collegium Records. He still lives near Cambridge, but frequently conducts other choirs and orchestras around the world.
In 1980 he was made an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, and in 1988 a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In 1996 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred a Lambeth Doctorate of Music upon him in recognition of his contribution to church music.
I think our choir would just love to sing the Shepherd's Pipe!
