Local choir Trinity Singers, based in Churchill, is well-known for the wide array of music offered in its programmes. On Saturday 25th October, at All Saints Church Wrington, the choir presents a programme entitled “Give us this day: songs of life and hope”, which will again showcase this diversity.
There are stories of life, love and faithlessness, presented in arrangements of folksongs by John Rutter and others. These include variants on the archetypal ‘Young man meets maid, pursues maid, betrays maid’ tale, as well as the rather less common ‘Old lady drowns husband in the river’.
There are stories of struggle, resistance and hope, including the popular spirituals “Steal away”, “Go down, Moses” and “Were you there?” There is Ethel Smyth’s stirring suffragette anthem “March of the Women”, plus the first performance of a new work, “Sympathy”, specially written for the concert by local composer Nick Varley. And there is the work from which the concert takes its title: “Give us this day”, Ward Swingle’s beautiful call to “cherish the earth before it dies”.
The concert starts at 7.30 and is conducted by Andrew Tyrrell and accompanied by Claire Alsop.
Tickets, £12.50, are available through the choir website www.trinitysingers.org.uk from any member of the choir, or on the door.



