Summer Showcase

Summer Showcase

Conductor: David Wilson
Accompanist - Stephen Wall

Helen Brackenbury
(2009 winner of the John Ogden Competition)
and
The Minster Jazz Quartet

Sam Glaser - Sax
Alex Blackwell - drums
Jeremiah Vocaturo - bass
Paul Smith - keyboard

Mansfield Choral Society sing
‘The Sprig of Thyme’
(A cycle of folk-songs set by John Rutter)
The bold grenadier - an English folk-song
The keel row - a Northumbrian folk-song
The willow tree - an English folk-song
The sprig of thyme - a Lincolnshire folk-song
Down by the sally gardens - an Irish traditional melody
The cuckoo - an English folk-song
I know where I’m going - an Irish folk-song
Willow song - 16th century melody & words
O can ye sew cushions? - a Scottish folk-song
The miller of Dee - an English traditional song
Afton water - a Scottish folk-song

The Minster Jazz Quartet
present their first selection

Helen Brackenbury
Svegliatevi nel cor - Georg Friedrich Händel
Silent noon - Ralph Vaughan Williams
I wandered lonely as a cloud (daffodils) - Eric Thiman
It was a lover and his lass - Gerald Finzi

Mansfield Choral Society sing
A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square - Manning Sherwin
Bobby Shafto - traditional English rhyme
Pick a bale of cotton - slavery work song from southern USA

Helen Brackenbury
Habanera - Georges Bizet
Some enchanted evening - Rodgers and Hammerstein
The physician - from Nymph Errant by Cole Porter

The Minster Jazz Quartet
present their second selection

Mansfield Choral Society sing
Deep purple - Peter de Rose & Mitchell Parish
Night and day - Cole Porter
Ain’t misbehaving’ - Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller
Summer time - George Gershwin
(Soprano solo - Ruth Treadgold)