This page gives a record of previous lunchtime music recitals and evening concerts that are older than all the recitals listed on the Previous Recitals page.
Previous Recital – 8 December 2021
We welcomed the City Chamber Choir back for a Festive Choral Concert to kick off this year’s Christmas activities. We’d had the CCC sing us out of lockdown in July, and hope very much that this concert will not have sung us back into more severe restrictions than Boris’s current Plan B.
The plan was to have Dr Richard Dunster-Sigtermans accompany the choir on our organ but at the last moment he’d had a fall and fractured his hip, so Stephen Jones had to play the organ and piano and conduct the choir – a multi-tasking ability for which we males are not renowned. But it went off without a hitch.
Numbers all round were a little less than usual because of illness and (perhaps) Covid hesitancy, but for those present – I think including the choir – it was a really enjoyable evening.
We always get a wide choice of music from the CCC, from the traditional and familiar to more modern arrangements and some newer choral pieces. The musical elements were interspersed with traditional Bible Readings, read by church members.
With the performance having elements of a concert and an act of worship there was initially a reluctance to applaud, but we were assured by Stephen that “if we wanted to applaud we could” (cue for laughter and some loud applause).
We had the full lyrics for the evening’s recital prepared for us by CCC’s Janet Gilbert – much appreciated by the audience. It is attached here for anyone who wants to view or revisit the video of the concert.
We rounded off the evening with the now traditional mulled wine and mince pies and were please that so many choir members stayed to partake and chat.
Potters Bar United Reformed Church 