Hastings Choristers - Midcoast

Musical Director - Robyn Ryan OAM

St Agnes Church, Port Macquarie Thursday 13 December 2018 at 6.00 pm

Accompanist - Lydia Wills

Hastings Choristers

Musical Director: Robyn Ryan OAM President: Kerryn Lawrence

REHEARSALS: Mondays 6.30-8.30 pm, MacKillop College Hall, Lochinvar Place, Port Macquarie Hastings Choristers is most grateful for the generous support of its Patrons, Paul and Mary McCarthy. We would also like to thank Lyndon Bartholomew and PMA Communications Group for the printing of our flyers and programs and Jenni Searson and MacKillop College for providing our staging equipment and rehearsal venue. Many thanks to the staff and parishioners of St Agnes’ Church for their enthusiastic assistance in accommodating this concert, and to our own hardworking committee , concert planners and solo-ists for making it happen.

HASTINGS CHORISTERS:

www.midcoast.com.au/~choristers

Email hastingschoristers@gmail.com

Francesca Plentinger A Year 10 student at MacKil-lop College, Francesca was recently awarded Honours in her Grade 5 singing Exam, At the 2018 Taree Eisteddfod she received the 16 years

Championship Award, the Stage Door/Canteen Scholarship and the award for Most Promising Competitor 16-20 years. Francesca plays guitar and has been a singer with the Gondwana Voices Novus Children's Choir.

CANTORUS Messe de Minuit pour Noël Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1634(?) - 1704

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Agnus Dei

FRANCESCA PLENTINGER How Beautiful are the Feet Messiah, G.F. Handel

CANTABILE A la Ru, a la Me Trad. Northern New Mexico, arr. B. Ellingboe

Balulalow A Ceremony of Carols, Benjamin Britten

Soprano - Francesca Plentinger

This Little Babe A Ceremony of Carols, Benjamin Britten

FRANCESCA PLENTINGER O Holy Night Adolphe Adam

CANTORUS Christmas Lullaby John Rutter

Angels’ Carol John Rutter

Star Carol John Rutter

What Sweeter Music John Rutter

Carol of the Bells Old Ukrainian Carol, arr. D. A. Mills

Sure on This Shining Night Z. Randall Stroope

There were shepherds … Messiah, G.F. Handel

And lo, the angel of the Lord … Soprano - Francesca Plentinger

And the angel said unto them

And suddenly there was with the angel

Glory to God Messiah, G.F. Handel

Soprano - Helen Gibson

Renee Hamers

Contralto - Evelyn Chee

Tenor - John Thompson Paul Groeneveld

Bass - Otmar Messner

Merry Christmas to our wonderful friends and audience .You make it all worthwhile!