Here are details of the programmes from some of our previous concerts;
Summer Songs. The Annual Concert of The Maia Singers and The Stockport Youth Choir
St Michael and All Angels, Bramhall, 28th June
The Stockport Youth Choir sang;
All things bright and beautiful – Rutter, Golden Slumners – Arr. Strommen, Walk dem bones – Arr. Musser, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, and Close Every Door to Me - Andrew Lloyd Webber and The Lullaby of Broadway – Arr. Marsh.
Norris Bank Primary School Choir sang Ain’t no mountain high enough, Sing for Joy – Arr. Lin Marsh, Soulle – Traditional. Ain’t gonna let no body, Arr. S Davies and What a man.
The Maia Singers sang Pastime with good company – Anon, The Londonderry Air – Arranged Bob Cholcott and I got Plenty o’ nuttin’ – Gershwin.
The combined shoirs then sang The Skye Boat Song arranged by Percy Grainger and Swing Down Chariot arranged by A Thomas.
Summer Serenade, Mellor Church, 18th June 2011
Sanctus - J S Bach
Geistliches Lied – Brahms
Jubilate – Bob Chicott
Verleigh uns frieden – Mendelssohn
Though knowest, Lord – Purcell
Deel River – Arranged Paul Ayres
Cantate Domino – Pitoni
Pastime with good company – Anon
The Londonderry Air – Arranged Bob Cholcott
Full Fathom Five – R Vaughan Williams
Orpheus with his Lute – Macfarren
Quick we have but a second – Stanford
Songs from Porgy and Bess – Gershwin
Songs from Les Miserables – Schonberg
Send in the Clowns – Sondheim
Swing Down Chariot – Arranged A Thomas
Singing Together, Stockport Town Hall, 5th April 2011
The Maia Singers sang;
Alleluia – William Boyce, You Raise me up – Graham/Lovland, Swing Down, Chariot – Andre Thomas, Shenandoah – James Erb
The Stockport Youth Choir sang;
The Ash Grove – Traditional, Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, and Close Every Door to Me - Andrew Lloyd Webber
There were performances from St Thomas’s Primary School Choir, Hursthead Primary School Choir, The Laurel Lane Singers and Queensgate Primary School Choir.
The combined shoirs then sang The Skye Boat Song arranged by Percy Grainger and Swing Down Chariot.
Carols by Candlelight, St George’s Church, Stockport 11th December 2010
Silent Night – Rose
The Angel Gabriel – Pettman
The Lamb – Tavener
Adam Lay Ybounden – Ord
In Dulci Jubilo – Bach
There is no Rose – Joubert
Ding Dong! Merrily on High - Wood
Jingle Bells – Allwood
Hymn to The Virgin – Britten
What Sweeter Music – Rutter
Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day – Archer
We Wish you a Merry Christmas – Warrell
Angel Alleluias – Bullard
Candlelight Carol – Rutter
Corporate Event at Gorton Monastery, 1st November 2010
Comedy Tonight – Stephen Sondheim
Fly me to the Moon – Bart Howard
Swing Down Chariot – Andre J Thomas
Mame – Jerry Herman
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
Porgy and Bess – George Gerswhin
Moon River – Henry Mancini
Oklahoma – Rogers and Hammerstein
You Raise Me Up – Brendan Graham and Rolf Lovland
Les Miserables – Claude Shoenberg
Shenandoah – American Folk Song Arr. James Erb
Royal Northern College of Music, 17th October 2010
A Little Jazz Mass – Bob Chilcott
Linden Lea – R Vaughan Williams
Viva la Musica
Send in the Clowns – Stephen Sondheim
Boatmen’s Dance – Aaron Copland
Sure on this Shining Night – Moreton Lauridsen
Irish Blessing – Bob Chilcott
