Thursday, November 20, 2014

Programme for Sunday 30th November 2014

Musical Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
Eltham Park Methodist Church
Westmount Road
SE9 1XX

Sunday 30th November 2014 at 3pm

PSA Chairman: James Hay
Hon. Musical Director: Martin Bunce AGSM
Conductor: Chris Cole
Leader: Roy Simpson
Accompanist: Tom Wade

Guest Vocalist: Bonnie Callaghan (Soprano) 
Accompanied by Stuart Kale (Piano)

Opening Music, Number 1 from 'Rustic Revels' by Percy E. Fletcher 

Chairman: Reading, Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer
Hymn: ‘Hail to the Lord’s anointed’

Musical Items - Introduced by Ted Williams     
Overture: ‘Semiramide’ by Gioacchino Rossini  

Vocal Items: Bonnie Callaghan (Soprano) 
Accompanied by Stuart Kale (Piano)

'Play Gipsy' by Emmerich Kalman
                        
Bonnie and Stuart return for further vocal items

Selection: 'The Count of Luxembourg' by Franz Lehar

Secretary: Notices and Collection, during which the
Orchestra play: 'Gavotte Suite in D'  by Johann Sebastian Bach

Chairman: Remarks
Hymn: ‘Guide me O though great Jehovah’ 

Benediction

Concluding Music: 'Colonel Bogey' March by Kenneth J Alford

Forthcoming Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for your diary:
Sunday 21st December Carol service with orchestra 4pm (music starts 3.45pm)
NO DECEMBER PSA
Sunday 25th January 3pm with Simon Eastwood and the Halstow Community Choir
Sunday 22nd February 3pm soloist tba
Sunday 30th March 3pm soloist tba
Sunday 26th April 3pm soloist tba

Forthcoming Orchestral Rehearsals:
2nd, 9th, and our last rehearsal before Christmas, 16th December.
Rehearsals will start again in 2015 beginning:
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th January 2015

New members welcome just come along to any rehearsal or e-mail psaorchestra@interalia.plus.com for more details. 

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Programme for New Eltham Remembrance Sunday 9th November 2014

New Eltham Methodist Church,437 Footscray Road,New Eltham,SE9 3UL
Sunday 9th November 2014 at 3.00pm

Hon Musical Director: Martin Bunce AGSM
Conductor: Chris Cole/Martin Bunce
Leader: Roy Simpson 
Accompanist: Tom Wade

Guest Soloists: Lucy Bunce (Soprano/Harp)
Carol-Anne Wells (Piano)*

Opening Music: 'Roses from the South' by Johan Strauss II

Musical items introduced by Ted Williams:
Excerpt from 'Westminster' leading into 'Knightsbridge' from 'The London Suite' by Eric Coates
Overture: 'Orphee aux Enfers' (Orpheus in the Underworld) by Jacques Offenbach

Vocal items from: Lucy Bunce (Soprano/Harp) 

'Finlandia' by Jean Sibelius
Solo Time: 'The Second Minuet' by Aubrey Dowden and Maurice Besley
featuring Martin Bunce on Trumpet            

Soloist: Martin Cleave performs 'The Warsaw Piano Concerto'
by Richard Addinsell

Lucy Bunce returns for more solo items

Selection: from 'The Gondoliers' by Arthur sullivan
'Pomp and Circumstance' by Edward Elgar
During which a collection will be taken for Methodist Church Missions

Concluding Music: 'The Dambusters' a March by Eric Coates

*Carol-Ann Wells had an operation shortly before the concert and felt unable to perform so we were pleased to have Martin Cleave step into the breach and play for us. Many thanks to Martin for a superb performance and we wish Carol-Ann a swift recovery and hope she will come and play for us another time.

Our next concert will be at Eltham Park Methodist Church on
Sunday 30th November at 3pm with Simon Kale (Tenor)
and Stuart Kale (Piano) 

The PSA AGM will be held on Tuesday 18th November at 7.30 at Eltham Park Methodist Church. Everyone is welcome to attend.