Programme 1995 – Oratorio Concert

NZ NATIONAL SINGING SCHOOL

ORATORIO CONCERT

St Mary’s Church – Greenmeadows
9th January 1995 at 8.00pm

DISCOVERING AND DEVELOPING GREAT SINGING

PATRONS
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Sir Donald McIntyre
Dame Malvina Major

17th Annual Summer School

ORATORIO CONCERT

Christine Treseder Hallett
On Mighty Pens – Creation – Haydn

Ellen Bennett
If God be for us – Messiah – Handel

Richard Harris
Love bade me welcome – Mystical Songs – Vaughan Williams

Fiona Avery
Come unto Him – Messiah – Handel

Maurice Gorbey
Recit: I go on my way
Aria: For the Mountains shall not depart
Elijah – Mendelssohn

Elaine Wogan
I know that my redeemer liveth – Messiah – Handel

Yvonne James
The Lord is my Shepherd – Dvorak

Rawiri Rogers
Sing God a Simple Song – Mass – Bernstein

Glenda Street
Recit: My Master and my Lord
Aria: Grief for Sin
St Matthew Passion – Bach

Miriam Chen
Ave Maria – Luzzi

Tutor   Isabel Cunningham
Accompanist   John Wells

CREATION – Haydn
Soloists

In the Beginning   Richard Harris
Robert Wiremu
Chorus

And God made the Firmament   Maurice Gorbey

The Marv’llous Work   Elaine Wogan
Chorus

And God said, Let the Waters   Murray Dahm

Rolling in Foaming Billows   Richard Harris

And God said, Let the Earth   Miriam Chen

With Verdue Clad   Morag Atchison

And the Heavenly Host   Robert Wiremu

Awake the Harp   Chorus

And God said, Let there be Lights   Rawiri Rogers

In Splendour Bright   Robert Wiremu

The Heavens are Telling   Ellen Bennett
Robert Wiremu
Richard Harris
Chorus

Musical Director   Peter Watts
Vocal Coaches   Grant Dickson
Isabel Cunningham
David Griffiths
Accompanist   John Wells

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