Auckland Welsh Choir performance to bring festive cheer

The Auckland Welsh Choir is helping locals to get in the Christmas spirit with their upcoming performance: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’, in collaboration with the Devonport Chamber Orchestra.

‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ is a 1912 work for baritone, choir and orchestra, and was first performed at Hereford Cathedral. The performance consists of the English folk carols ‘The truth sent from above’, ‘Come all you worthy gentlemen’ and ‘On Christmas night all Christians sing’ (the Sussex Carol) – all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp.

The details:
What: The Auckland Welsh Choir’s – Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
When: Saturday, 15 November 2014, 3pm
Where: Somervell Church, cnr Remuera Road and Greenlane Road, Remuera, Auckland
Tickets: Can be purchased for $25 by phoning (09) 361 1000, or through iTicket www.iticket.co.nz (incurs service fee), or at the door (children under 14 are free).