Oxford Shield

Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club

Cambridge Shield

Saturday 13th December 2008 at 5:30 pm
in the Housman Room, University College, Gower Street, WC1

'Nothing Too Serious'
Concert No 1996

1

A Musical Dialogue:  ‘Lets Have a Party’

Betty Roe/Helen Shaw

 

Helen Shaw (soprano)   Richard Shaw (baritone)
Graham Bowler (piano)

2

Songs: Two Milongas

Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)

 

 

‘Oblivion’ arr. Chris Crocker
‘Yo soy Maria’
from Operita ‘Maria de Buenos Aires’

 

 

Genevieve Usher (soprano)   Chris Crocker (piano)

3

Piano solo

 

 

 

The Little White Donkey

Jacques Ibert (1882 - 1962)

 

Mary Leonard (piano)

4

An Invention: Geographical Fugue

Ernst Toch (1887 - 1964)

 

Sue Estermann,  Lyn Parkyns,  Graham Bowler,  Michael Crowe (voices)

5

Boy Meets Girl

 

 

 

‘Sweet Kate’

Robert Jones (1583 - 1633)

 

 

Duet from ‘Porgy and Bess’

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)

 

Lyn Parkyns (soprano)   Carl Murray (baritone)  
Chris Underhill (piano)

6

Dances for the piano

 

 

 

Solo       ‘Tango’

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

 

 

Chris Crocker

 

 

Duet      ‘Rumba’

John Carmichael (1930 - )

 

 

Margaret Miller,  Graham Bowler

 

 

Solo       ‘Polka’

Dimitri Shostakovich( 1906 - 1975)

 

 

Chris Underhill

7

'A Song of the Weather' and 'The Hippopotamus’

Flanders and Swann

 

Michael Crowe (with guitar)

8

Double reed quintet: Fanfare for the Common Mandrel

Stacey Willer (1962 - )

 

Claire Shanks, Barry Solomon (oboes)   Jennifer Murray (Cor anglais)
Jo Rushton, Hugh Rosenbaum (bassoons)

 

 

~  ~  ~  I N T E R V A L  ~  ~  ~

 

9

Reed Trio     

 

 

 

‘Scherzola’

Gordon Lewin (1921 - 2008)

 

Nick Murray (oboe)   Debbie Smith clarinet)   Hugh Rosenbaum (bassoon)

10

Three 'Palm Court' Pieces

 

 

 

Humoreske Op 101 No 7 A Dvořák (1841 - 1904)

 

 

Méditation (from Thaïs)

J Massenet (1842 - 1912)

 

 

Caprice Viennois Op 2

F Kreisler (1875 - 1962)

 

Evelyn Chadwick (violin)   Alan Reddish (piano)

11

Piano duets

 

 

 

‘Perpetuum Mobile’

J Strauss II (1825 - 1899)

 

 

‘Nola’

F Arndt (1889 - 1918)

 

Margaret Miller,  Graham Bowler

12

Vocal duets

 

 

 

Waltz from ‘The Merry Widow’

F Lehar (1870 - 1948)

 

 

‘Tea for Two’ 

V Youmans (1898 - 1946)

 

Christine Fisher (soprano)   Patrick Howard (baritone)  
Chris Underhill (piano)

13

A Musical Monologue

 

 

 

‘The Village Church Organist’

Helen Shaw

 

Helen Shaw (voice and keyboard)

14

An expansion on ‘Jingle Bells’

 

 

John Asher (piano)

15

Voices        ‘Das himmlische Orchester

J Haas (1879 - 1960)

 

All voices   ‘God Bless the Master of This House’
(the Sussex Mummers’ Carol)
arr. R Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)

 

accompanied by John Asher (piano)

 

Organisers: Richard and Helen Shaw


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