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Concert And Dress Rehearsal Information

1. Dress Rehearsal Saturday December 13th - Please arrive at the church by 12.45 p.m. and be ready to sing by 1.00 p.m. Rehearsal will run until approximately 4.00 p.m. Please have your music in concert order and in a black binder. (P.S. No ‘dress’ required).

2. Concert Night Monday December 15th - Arrive at the church by 5.45 p.m. and be on the risers by 6.00 p.m. for warm-up and run-throughs. Doors open at 7.00 p.m. to the audience. Show time is 7:30 p.m.

3. Concert attire – All black including stockings/socks and shoes. No flashy jewellery. You will be provided with festive scarves/ties.

4. Music lights on your scores must not shine into the audience

5. Sing-along: The concert set list now has a few sing-along additions, please see below

6. Scores - please return only the 7 published scores loaned to you (6 for T/B) immediately after the concert. You may want to file anything you printed and anything with the choir stamp crossed out, as we sometimes return to the same songs.

7. CDs of Concert – Please give Eleanor your $20 in an envelope with your name on it no later than the dress rehearsal, if you want to buy one.

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Concert Order

Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind    John Rutter     from As You Like It
inter is at Hand    Ruth Morris Gray    from Richard III
Orpheus With His Lute    Christine Donkin    from Henry VIII

Sonnet set:
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18)   Nils Lindberg
Sonnet 43    Laura Hawley
That Time of Year (Sonnet 73)    Stanley Hoffmann
How Like a Winter (Sonnet 97)    Ruth Morris Gray

So Hallowed and So Gracious is the Time    Paul Ayres    from Hamlet

Audience Sing-along:
Greensleeves (1 verse)
What Child is This?

When Daisies Pied    John Rutter   from Loves Labour's Lost
When Icicles Hang By the Wall    Thomas Arne    from Love’s Labour's Lost

 choir sit-down break. entracte (small ensemble song)5. “Please return only the 7 published scores loaned to you 6 for T/B). You may want to file anything you printed and anything with the choir stamp crossed out, as we sometimes return to the same songs.”

Under the Greenwood Tree SSA    Robert Boyd    from As You Like It
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind    Elise Letourneau    from As You Like It

Lawn as White as Driven Snow    Robert Johnson    from The Winter’s Tale

O Mistress Mine    Matthew Harris    from Twelfth Night
Hey Ho, The Wind and the Rain    Robert Schumann    from Twelfth Night

Ottawa actor Robin Guy will join us to help put the songs in their dramatic context: she will be performing excerpts from each of the plays, as well as reciting the sonnet texts. Robin is a frequent performer at the Gladstone Theatre, as well as being the venue Manager, and she also runs Three Sisters Theatre Company.