OUP Choir - Feel The Spirit

Oxford University Press Choir
Conductor: Benedict Goodall
Piano: To be confirmed

Programme
Folk Songs from Britain and Ireland, Set 1
Greensleeves - Trad. English, Arr. Weaver
Scarborough Fair - Trad. English, Arr. Higgins
O Danny Boy - Trad. Irish, Arr. Chilcott
Appalachian Spring, Suite for 13 instruments - Copland
Folk Songs from Britain and Ireland, Set 2
Molly Malone - Trad. Irish, Arr. Secco
Loch Lomond - Trad. Scottish, Arr. Secco
Auld Lang Syne - Trad. Scottish, Arr. Beethoven
Interval
Selection from Old American Songs - Copland
Feel The Spirit - Trad. African American Spirituals, Arr. Rutter

Description
This programme celebrates traditional songs from across the Atlantic, beginning with folk songs from England, Ireland and Scotland, then hopping 'across the pond' to American traditions. Copland's Appalachian Spring depicts the 'traditional' American way of living through folk-inspired melodies, and ending with a setting of the Shaker tune Simple Gifts. A selection of numbers from Copland's Old American Songs shows a wide range of traditional music from America. The concert ends with Rutter's Feel the Spirit - an incredible arrangement of African American Spirituals, sensitively set for choir and orchestra.

Under-18s free
Concessions for students and 60+

Doors open at 7:15 p.m., concert starts at 7:30 p.m.