Our sell-out concert on Friday night was a great success, and hugely enjoyed by all who attended, judging by the rapturous applause.
The repertoire was baroque with a Christmas influence, plus more modern pieces. Many were cunningly arranged by Vaughan Jones (Violin) after some late-night composing sessions.
The final count was £567 received by Cherish Your Church.
A great many people helped achieve this fine result – too many to thank by name. Well done everyone for all your hard work, and for enabling us to revel in the music whilst at the same time contributing to a good cause.
Robert
Link to Vaughan's Manor House Music blog.
Vaughan’s description of the music:
Our brief was to play music on the themes of Winter and Christmas so I had lots of arranging to do, particularly of Christmas carols (since published arrangements for string quartet are often quite basic and lacking in detail). In the end, we carefully put together a programme to include a mixture of well loved carols with seasonal favourites such as the ‘Christmas Concerto’ by Corelli, ‘Winter’ by Vivaldi, some of my own arrangements of pieces from Handel’s ’Messiah’, popular pieces from the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, In the Bleak Midwinter by Holst and of course ‘Sheep May Safely Graze’ by J.S Bach.
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