A Concert of Music for Passiontide
The choir sang in St Lawrence Parish Church on March 10th 2016 in a concert for Jersey Hospice.
The concert included Mozart’s Ave Verum, music by Palestrina, Purcell and a beautiful Requiem by Canadian composer Eleanor Daley with soloists Karen Spencer and William Millow
The concert poster can be seen here
2016
The choir visited Coulon in France.
Coulon is a commune in the Deux-
The concert poster can be seen here
A French newspaper review of the concert can be seen online here and downloaded here
The Le Vanneau concert order of music is here
The Coulon concert order of music is here
Les Chanterelles order of music is here
Amity Singers (above and left)
Les Chanterelles (below)
An Amity trip away is not just singing!
Breakfast by the pool at the gite was enjoyable (left)
Boats were hired to explore the water courses of the area
The Church at Le Vanneau (above and right)
The Church at Coulon (left)
At the time of our visit, the annual canoeing festival was taking place where the participants look for clues throughout the waterways -
Amity sang “A Hymn to the Virgin” by Benjamin Britten with the Jersey Festival Choir in The Festival of Carols at St Thomas’ Church; Amity also sang a solo item “O Radiant Dawn” by James Macmillan. For more details of this concert see here
Amity sang for the National Trust for Jersey Christmas Carol Concert at 16 New Street. The concert was free entry with a retiring collection held at the end of the evening to raise funds for this National Trust restored Georgian house. The programme order can be seen here . The evening was concluded, for those who were able to stay on, with a very pleasant meal at Café JAC at the Arts Centre.
Sonata in A Minor KV 310 (1st Movement) by Mozart
Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55 No. 1 by Chopin
The concert was free entry with a retiring collection in aid of Family Nursing and Home Care Services.