1997-1998

A SEASON OF: Riotous Tours & Sophisticated Orchestral Concerts
including an 80th BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to JOHN GARDNER
& choreographed singing in Bowler Hats

Choir Membership 1997-1998

Season Highlights:

  • Fun TOUR to AACHEN in Germany

  • JOHN GARDNER - 80th Birthday Concert with orchestra, two Gardner Suites & Puccini Gloria

  • Schütz CHRISTMAS ORATORIO with orchestra

  • CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL with choreographed Men in Bowler Hats & McPherson’s Farewell in Final Gala Concert.

  • CARMINA BURANA with orchestra in Greenwich

Aachen

Liège Concert

Cork

CONCERTS


SEPTEMBER 20th 1997

TOUR to GERMANY

LIÈGE & AACHEN

OCTOBER 25TH 1997

JOHN GARDNER 80th

ST. JOHN’S, SMITH SQUARE

John Gardner - Seven Songs

1 Hark! Hark! the Lark!
DD London Oriana Choir
2 Crabbed Age & Youth
DD London Oriana Choir
3 Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May
DD London Oriana Choir
5 Under the Greenwood Tree
DD London Oriana Choir
7 How happy is he born and taught
DD London Oriana Choir

John Gardner - A Burns Sequence

1 Prayer under the pressure of violent anguish
DD London Oriana Choir
2 Oh Wretched Fortune
DD London Oriana Choir
4 Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?
DD London Oriana Choir
5 Oh Whistle an' I'll come to you - Excerpt
DD London Oriana Choir
7 MacPherson's Lament Excerpt
DD London Oriana Choir
Paraphrase of the First Psalm
DD London Oriana Choir

SCHÜTZ - The Christmas Story

DECEMBER 18TH 1997

ST. JAMES’S, PICCADILLY

Saturday FEBRUARY 21st 1998

FAURE REQUIEM

UNION CHAPEL, ISLINGTON

1-1 Stabat Mater - Scarlatti Stabat Mater
DD London Oriana Choir, Joseph Nolan-Cain
1-8 Sancta Maria - Scarlatti Stabat Mater
DD London Oriana Choir, Joseph Nolan-Cain
1-13 Fac ut animae - Scarlatti Stabat Mater
DD London Oriana Choir, Joseph Nolan-Cain
2-2 Dies Irae Excerpt - Pizzetti Messa di Requiem.mp3
DD London Oriana Choir

Saturday APRIL 4th 1998

AN ITALIAN EASTER

ST. JOHN’S, SMITH SQUARE

CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL

MAY 2nd - 4th 1998

CORK, IRELAND

AMERICANA/CARMINA BURANA

Saturday JUNE 27th 1998

ROYAL NAVAL CHAPEL, GREENWICH

The Rio Grande
DD London Oriana Choir: Joseph Nolan-Cain, Roderick Chadwick
05 Ecce gratum - Carmina Burana
DD London Oriana Choir: Roderick Chadwick, Joseph Nolan-Cain
14 In taberna quando sumus - Orff CB
DD London Oriana Choir: Roderick Chadwick, Joseph Nolan-Cain

Sunday JULY 5TH 1998

BACH CANTATAS

ST. MATTHEW’S
MASBRO ROAD

SEASON REPERTOIRE SPREAD

London Oriana Choir Archive