Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Christmas Oratorio ”A Light in the Stable” by Alan Bullard
The Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church is pleased to invite you to their Christmas Oratorio on Sunday, December 8 at 4 PM, led by the Oratorio Choir, Knox Bell Choir, and guest chamber orchestra including harpist Merynda Adams. BRPC Music Director Christopher Fortin will conduct the performance. No reservations are required, and there is no charge for the program.
The concert features the brilliant sing-along cantata "A Light in the Stable" by the British composer Alan Bullard performed by the choir and orchestra. The cantata includes several treasured carols of the season. Also featured is the Knox Bell Choir performing special arrangements of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel and Silent Night.
Composer Alan Bullard was born in 1947, grew up in London, and studied with Geoffrey Flowers and Desmond Swinburn when at school, then with Herbert Howells and Antony Hopkins at the Royal College of Music, and with Arnold Whittall at Nottingham University. He has been writing music all his life, and frequently undertakes commissions for choral societies, church choirs, orchestral societies and many other ensembles. His choral music, both sacred and secular, has been performed in a wide range of venues in the UK, the USA, and elsewhere.
Many of his choral works are published by Oxford University Press, and he is the editor of, and contributor to, The Oxford Book of Flexible Anthems, The Oxford Book of Flexible Carols, the Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems, and the Oxford Book of Flexible Choral Songs. His works are recorded on CD by such ensembles as Selwyn College Choir, Kings College Choir, The Sixteen, and are regularly broadcast in the UK and the US. As well as music for a wide range of ensembles and soloists, he has also written much educational music, including the Joining the Dots sight-reading series, the Scale Explorer series (both ABRSM) and, jointly with his wife Janet, the Pianoworks series (OUP). He holds an ARCM from the Royal College of Music, a BMus from London University, an MA from Nottingham University and a DU (Honorary Doctorate) from Essex University, and he lives in East Anglia.
Merynda Adams has performed throughout the US and in Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New York Grand Opera, and London’s New Philharmonic Orchestra.
A delicious reception will follow, and a free will offering will be taken to help cover our costs for this and other special music events. To support our endeavors throughout the year, please consider visiting our Friends of Music page at www.brpc.org/worship/friends-of-music.
Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church is in the center of Basking Ridge at One East Oak St. You may contact the church at www.brpc.org, or 908 766-1616.
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