Saturday 17th June 2017
Amity sang at the Jersey Academy of Music (JAM) Summer Fayre and Awards afternoon. The event was a great success raising approximately £3000 to go towards future Academy projects
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We sang Duncan Miller's piece, A Summer Nocturne, for the second time in public in our first set of music in the Chapel.
Here, Duncan is explaining about the poem, written by Douglas S Johnson in 1994, to the audience
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Chapel set (conducted by Elizabeth Farnon)
O let me live -Tomkins
Super Flumina-Palestrina (conducted by John Farnon)
Il est bel et bon- Passereau
Ach weh des leiden -Hassler
In the gloaming -Annie Sullivan arr. John Farnon
A Summer Nocturne-Duncan Miller (conducted by Duncan)
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Our second set of music was sung on the terrace
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Terrace set (conducted by Elizabeth Farnon)
Chatanooga Choochoo -arr. Alan Simmons
Portrait of my love’ arr. Alan Simmons
Ihr musici frisch auf -Hassler
La! La ! La !- Certon
Love walked in- Gershwin (conducted by Gillian Sawyer)
Somebody talkin’ -trad. spiritual-arr. Stacey Gibbs
Piano accompaniment -Grace Garnier and Alison Stewart
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14th December 2017
The choir sang at 16, New Street for the third year in succession and, in a first for the choir, sang live on Channel ITV News!
The music sung was as follows;
Hail smiling Morn …Reginald Spofforth ( English composer C19th)
A maiden most gentle arr. Carter
Jesu Thou the virgin born -Holst
Silent Night arr. M. Sargent
Christmastide-Chilcott
Rise up Shepherds …American carol
Wexford carol –Irish carol arr. Wilberg
Dormi Jesu (Virgin’s cradle hymn) Rubbra
Sweet little Jesus boy.. arr. M. Neaum
Christmas Song…Chestnuts Roasting arr. J. Farnon
Have yourself a merry little Xmas..arr. Gailey
O Come all ye faithful
7h December 2017
The choir sang a mixture of seasonal pieces from our repertoire at Stuart Court, an MHA residential home
5th and 6th November 2017
The choir sang in the 2017 Eisteddfod Festival.
On the 5th, in the Town Church, the choir won the Stanley Sackett Memorial Trophy and achieved a Gold Certificate. The choir sang Christus est Stella by Will Todd, Super Flumina Babylonis by Palestrina and A Celtic Prayer by Barry Peters
On the 6th, at the Jersey Opera House, the choir achieved a Silver Certificate in singing in Class 278 for Mixed Voices. The choir sang Water of Tyne by Trad. Arr. by Michael Neaum, Ce Beau Printemps by Mark Sirett and Somebody talkin’ about Jesus by Trad spiritual Arr by Gibbs.
The choir also sang an original composition by one of its own members, A Summer Nocturne by Duncan Miller in Class 175, for Over 18s.