New Year's Eve Extravaganza
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Christ Church, Colliers Wood Saturday 31st December 2011 at 17:30
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Instead of a summer concert, we had a winter concert this year to celebrate the New Year, starting early at 5:30pm so that people still had plenty of time to get to their parties.

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Ensemble numbers:

  • Hallelujah (Cohen)
  • Blessing (Killerby)
  • California Dreamin' (Phillips/Phillips)
  • Deck The Hall (Trad.)
  • New Year Carol (Britten)
  • Ej Lásko, Lásko (Trad.), from our Czech visitors
  • Scarborough Canticle (Simon/Garfunkel)
  • Radiance (Trad.)
  • Champagne (Strauss)

Duets and solos:

  • Glitter and be Gay (Bernstein)
  • In the Still of the Night (Porter)
  • Let's Do It (Porter)
  • Duetto du Gatti (Rossini)
  • Mignon (Thomas)
  • Some Enchanted Evening (Rogers/Hammerstein)
  • Try to Remember (Schmidt/Jones)
  • Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)

And we were also joined by the Colliers Wood International Ukulele Orchestra, revelling in the glory of their Christmas smash hit (79p on Amazon and iTunes):

  • Istanbul
  • Twisting the Night Away
  • It Must be Love
  • At the Hop

The concert was a fund-raiser for Carmina Burana in March.



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