Repertoire

Christmas

A Medley of Christmas Carols. arr. Jack Haigh

Deck The Hall. Traditional

Gaudete Christus Est Natus. Piae Cantiones

In The Bleak Mid Winter. Christina Rossetti arr. Harold Darke

Italian Pipers’ Carol. Traditional arr. Alan Simmons

Kwymbayah (Christmas Version) . Traditional

Little Saint Nick. Brian Wilson and Mike Love arr. Jon Nicholas

Mistletoe and Wine. Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart, and Keith Strachan.

O Little One Sweet. Old German Carol Melody from Scheidt’s Tabulaturbuch arr. John Vine

The Carol Singers. T. C. Sterndale Bennett and Charles Hayes

The Kings. P. Cornelius

The Kings. Meryl Chambers

Thou Must Leave Thy Lonely Dwelling. From The Childhood Of Chris Op 25 by Hector Berlioz English words by Paul England

When A Child Is Born. Ciro Dammicco (often credited as Zacar) and Dario Baldan Bembo. Words by Fred Jay

White Christmas. Irving Berlin

Willie, Take Your Little Drum (Pat-a-pan). Traditional French Christmas carol. Bernard de la Monnoye

Comic

Doctor Foster. Herbet Hughes

The Blue-Tail Fly. Dan Emmett arr. Alan Gibbs

The Hippopotamus Song. Michael Flanders & Donald Swann arr. William Stickles

Jazz

Dream.   Johnny Mercer arr. Marcel Rousseau

Lullaby of Birdland. George Shearing arr. Marcel Rousseau

Our Love Is Here To Stay. George and Ira Gershwin adpt. Marcel Rousseau, arr. Chris Wiltshire

She was Beautiful (Cavatina).  Stanley Myers and Cleo Lane arr. Alans Simmons

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby.  Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson arr. Jack Baird

Lullabies

An Eriskay Love Lilt. Hugh Robertson

Bilbo’s Last Song. Donald Swann words by J.R.R.Tolkien

Lullaby. Billy Joel arr. Philip Lawson

Scarlet Ribbons.Evelyn Danzig and Jack Segal adpt. Derek Ward arr.Marcel Roussau

Medleys

Beatles for Choirs. John Lennon and Paul McCartney arr. Alan Simmons

Nice ‘n’ Easy (a Perry Como Medley) .   arr. Alan Simmons

Oliver medley. Lionel Bart arr. Alan Simmons

Paint Your Wagon. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe arr. Alan Simmons

World War One Songs. Ian Assersohn

Young and Sentimental (A Frank Sinatra Medley).arr. Gwyn Arch

Opera/Classical

Goin’ Home. Antonin Dvořák  adpt. William Arms Fisher

Nessun Dorma (From ‘Tourandot’). Giacomo Puccini arr. Alan Simmons

Pueri Hebraeorum – Then The Sons Of The Hebrews. Palestrina

Sea Fever. John Ireland  words by John Masefield, arr. Mansel Thomas

Popular

Angel Eyes. Matt Dennis and Earl Brent arr. Nicholas Hare

Blue Skies.  Irving Berlin arr. Gwyn Arch

Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie Mercury arr. Alan Simmons

Close To You. Hal David and Burt Bacharach arr. Marcel Rousseau

Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Freddie Mercury arr. Chris Peterson

Eleanor Rigby. Lennon and McCartney arr. Nicholas Hare

Every Time We Say Goodbye. Cole Porter arr. Alan Simmons

Georgy Girl. Jim Dale and Tom Springfield arr. Chuck Cassey

God Only Knows. Brian Wilson and Tony Asher arr. Ed Lojeski

Happy Together. Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon arr. Liz Garrett

How Deep Is Your Love. Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb arr. Christopher Hussey

Is This the Way to Amarillo? Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield arr. Jeffrey Howard

Let The River Run. Carly Simon arr. Ieuan Jones

Lets Do It. Cole Porter arr. Alan Simmons

Me and My Shadow.  Al Jolson, Billy Rose and David Dreyer arr. Dennis Driscoll

Mr Blue Sky. Jeff Lynne

My Evaline. A.E.Hall

My Way.  Jacques Revaux and Claude François translated by Paul Anka arr. Gwyn Arch

Once in a While. Bud Green and Michael Edwards

Puppet on a String. Phil Coulter and Bill Martin arr. Alan Simmons

Sailing. Gavin Sutherland arr. Alan Simmons

Satin Doll. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Words by Johnny Mercer arr. Nicholas Hare

Seems Like Old Times.  Carmen Lomardo and John Jacob Loeb

She. Charles Aznavour & Herbert Kretzmer  arr. Alan Simmons

Sherry. Bob Gaudio arr.Mac Huff

Sloop John B. Bahamas Folk Song arr. Gwyn Arch

The Birth of the Blues. Bud de Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson arr. Gwyn Arch

The Girl From Ipanema. Antonio Carlos Jobim, words by Norman Gimbel arr. Nicholas Hare

The Song Of The Jolly Roger. C. F. Chudleigh Candish

The Wellerman. New Zealand Folk Song arr. Roger Emerson

Three Times a lady. Lionel Richie  arr. Alan Simmons

Turn Your Radio On. Albert Brumley arr. Marcel Rousseau

Under The Boardwalk. Artie Resnick and Kenny Young

Uptown Girl. Billy Joel arr. Nicholas Hare

Wake Up, Little Susie.  Felice & Boudleaux Bryant  arr. Nicholas Hare

What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor. English Sea Shanty arr. Shaw Parker

When I’m Sixty Four.  John Lennon and Paul McCartney  arr. Nicholas Hare

Whispering Grass.  Fred and Doris Fisher arr. Nicholas Hare

The Windmills Of Your Mind . Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Michel Legrand  arr Alan Simmons

Sacred

Adoramus Te. Giovanni da Palestrina ed. by W.S.Gwynn Williams

Agnus Dei. Georges Bizet

Ave Verum. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Louis Saar

Locus Iste. Kevin A Manley

O Vos Omnes. Giovanni da Palestrina ed. By W.S.Gwynn Williams Seigneur,

Oh Isis and Osiris – The Priests’ Chorus. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Songs from Films and Shows

Maria (from ‘West Side Story’). Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein arr. Nicholas Hare

New York, New York.  Fred Ebb and John Kander arr.Alan Simmons

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (from ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’). Hal David and Burt Bacharach arr. Gwyn Arch

Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat (from ‘Guys and Dolls’). Frank Loesser arr. Alam Simmons

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (from ‘Roberta’). Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach arr.Alan Simmons

The Deadwood Stage. Paul Webster and Sammy Fain arr. Gwyn Arch

Toot Toot Tootsie (from ‘the Jazz Singer’). Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman and Dan Russo arr.anon

The Way We Were . Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch arr Gwyn Arch

We Saw the Sea (from ‘Follow the Fleet’).    Irving Berlin arr. Anon

What I did For Love (from A Chorus Line). Marvin Hamlich and Edward Kleban arr. Nicholas Hare

When I Fall In Love. Victor Young and Edward Heyman arr. Alan Simmons

Yesterday. Lennon and McCartney arr. Nicholas Hare

Spiritual/Traditional

Go down Moses. Traditional arr. Vladimir SoŁtysik

Kwmbayah. Traditional arr. K.J.Dinham My Evaline    Traditional arr. A.E.Hall

Old Abram Brown. Traditional   arr. Benjamin Britten

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.  Traditional  arr. Nicholas Hare