Alcossebre
Carnival of Colours with the voices of the Alcossebre Singers
On Thursday 8th May, the Alcossebre Singers choir presented the first of their two concerts being held in the San Cristóbal church in Alcossebre. For this occasion, the repertoire was devised with colours as its theme, with the title “Carnival of Colours”.
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The evening started with thanks to those who had made the event possible, John Stacey, Mike Hornett and George Howard, The Alcossebre Players, husbands and wives of the singers for their support as well as the parish priest for allowing them to use the church, and also mentioning the present of a representative of the Alcala de Xivert-Alcossebre in the person of councillor Ricardo Aguilar.
With their characteristic sense of humour, they appeared for the start of the programme with the colour yellow, directed by Maurice Webb and with the musical accompaniment provided by Vivienne Webb.
They reeled off tunes such as “Green, Green Grass of Home’, “Danny Boy”, “The White Cliffs of Dover” – with the audience joining in - “Mull of Kintyre”, “Red Roses for a Blue Lady”, “Spanish Eyes”, the Elvis classic “Blue Moon”, “Red Sails in the Sunset” and to end the first half “Joseph’s Coat” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, one of the first of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s successes.
After the interval, the first two songs were about birds with the well-known “Una Paloma Blanca” and “Yellow Bird” passing on to a song everyone knows “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from the film score of The Wizard of Oz. “Colours of the Wind”, “The Calico Printer’s Clerk”, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon”, “Edelweiss”, “Fields of Gold” all followed, to lead up to a song which has become almost a hymn “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from the musical Carousel – a tune which over time was adopted as the theme song for fans of Liverpool FC, among others. Ending the recital “The Rose” and the grand finale was “The Carnival is Over”.
Those singing were Amalia Beste, Audrey Brooks, Val Culley, Bernie Elsey, Sally Fairey, Gillian Hedley, Frances Hewlett, Anne Hornett, Madeline King, Dawn Marshall, Eddie McKay, Marion Murphy, Jean Perry, Patricia Stacey, Jackie Temple, Freddie Thompson, Cynthia Wood.
Jan Beste, Rex Culley, Richard Fairey, Jeff Hedley, Andy Hewlett, Derek Johnson, Peter McKay, Derek Marshall, Peta van Vulpen
The evening started with thanks to those who had made the event possible, John Stacey, Mike Hornett and George Howard, The Alcossebre Players, husbands and wives of the singers for their support as well as the parish priest for allowing them to use the church, and also mentioning the present of a representative of the Alcala de Xivert-Alcossebre in the person of councillor Ricardo Aguilar.
With their characteristic sense of humour, they appeared for the start of the programme with the colour yellow, directed by Maurice Webb and with the musical accompaniment provided by Vivienne Webb.
They reeled off tunes such as “Green, Green Grass of Home’, “Danny Boy”, “The White Cliffs of Dover” – with the audience joining in - “Mull of Kintyre”, “Red Roses for a Blue Lady”, “Spanish Eyes”, the Elvis classic “Blue Moon”, “Red Sails in the Sunset” and to end the first half “Joseph’s Coat” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, one of the first of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s successes.
After the interval, the first two songs were about birds with the well-known “Una Paloma Blanca” and “Yellow Bird” passing on to a song everyone knows “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from the film score of The Wizard of Oz. “Colours of the Wind”, “The Calico Printer’s Clerk”, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon”, “Edelweiss”, “Fields of Gold” all followed, to lead up to a song which has become almost a hymn “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from the musical Carousel – a tune which over time was adopted as the theme song for fans of Liverpool FC, among others. Ending the recital “The Rose” and the grand finale was “The Carnival is Over”.
Those singing were Amalia Beste, Audrey Brooks, Val Culley, Bernie Elsey, Sally Fairey, Gillian Hedley, Frances Hewlett, Anne Hornett, Madeline King, Dawn Marshall, Eddie McKay, Marion Murphy, Jean Perry, Patricia Stacey, Jackie Temple, Freddie Thompson, Cynthia Wood.
Jan Beste, Rex Culley, Richard Fairey, Jeff Hedley, Andy Hewlett, Derek Johnson, Peter McKay, Derek Marshall, Peta van Vulpen
