Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Programme for Sunday 22nd February 2015

Musical Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
Eltham Park Methodist Church
Westmount Road
SE9 1XX
Sunday 22 February 2015 at 3pm

PSA Chairman: Rosina Heagren
Hon. Musical Director: Martin Bunce AGSM
Conductors: Chris Cole and Martin Bunce
Leader: Roy Simpson   
Accompanist: Tom Wade
Guest Vocalists: Valerie Murray (Soprano, Marilyn Bigham (Mezzo Soprano),
James Hay (Tenor) 
Accompanied by Anne Clements (Piano)

Opening Music: 'Rondo' by Henry Purcell (Orchestration by Tom Bunce)

Chairman: Reading, Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer    
Hymn: ‘O Love that will not let me go’

Musical Items - Introduced by Ted Williams     
Overture: 'Egmont' by Ludwig van Beethoven

Vocal Items: Valerie Murray (Soprano, Marilyn Bigham (Mezzo Soprano),
James Hay (Tenor)
Accompanied by Anne Clements (Piano)

'Romance;' by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Valerie, Marilyn, James and Anne return for further vocal items

Selection: 'Mary Poppins' by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

Secretary: Notices and Collection, during which the  
Orchestra play: 'Plink, Plank, Plunk' by Leroy Anderson
    
Chairman: Remarks
Hymn: 'As the deer pants for the water'    
Benediction

Concluding Music: 'Radetsky March' by Johann Strauss

Forthcoming Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for your diary:
Sunday 29th March 3pm Soloist Mary Gridley (Soprano)
with Geoffrey Burford (Piano)
Sunday 26th April 3pm Soloists Christine Birch (Soprano) and Marilyn Bigham (Mezzo Soprano) with Anne Clements (Piano)
Sunday 17th May 3pm Chislehurst Methodist Church, Prince Imperial Road, Chislehurst, Kent for the Kentish Society(AMKKM) Soloist Melonie-Jane Falkner with Martin Cleave (Piano)
Sunday 31st May 3pm Soloist Stephen Roe (Baritone) with Rosemary Chater (Piano)
Sunday 28th June 3pm Chris Cole and the ‘Golden Girls’
Sunday 26th July 3pm featuring talent from the orchestra

Forthcoming Orchestral Rehearsals:
24th February
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th March
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th April
5th, 12th, 19th, 26th May
2nd, 9th, 15th, 23rd, 30th June
7th, 14th, 21st July
Tuesday 7.45pm at Eltham Park Methodist Church
New members welcome just come along to any rehearsal or e-mail psaorchestra@interalia.plus.com for more details. 

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Programme for Sunday 25th January 2015

Musical Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
Eltham Park Methodist Church
Westmount Road
SE9 1XX
Sunday 25th January 2014 at 3pm

PSA Chairman: Hazel Roberts
Hon. Musical Director: Martin Bunce AGSM
Conductor: Martin Bunce
Leader: Roy Simpson   
Accompanist: Tom Wade
Guest Vocalists: Simon Eastwood and the Halstow Community Choir   
 
Opening Music: 'Perpetuum Mobile' by Johann Strauss

Chairman: Reading, Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer    
Hymn: The race that long in darkness pined

Musical Items - Introduced by Ted Williams     
Overture: 'Die Fledermaus' (The Bat) by Johann Strauss

Vocal Items by Simon Eastwood and the Halstow Community Choir 

'Champagner' a Polka by Johann Strauss

Simon Eastwood and the Halstow Community Choir return for further vocal items

Selection: 'Beautiful Danube' by Johann Strauss

Secretary: Notices and Collection, during which the  
Orchestra play: 'Fruhlingsstimmen' (Voices of Spring) by Johann Strauss
    
Chairman: Remarks
Hymn: Hail to the Lord's Annointed    
Benediction

Concluding Music:'The Old Campaigner' by Johann Strauss

Forthcoming Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for your diary:
Sunday 22nd February 3pm soloist tba
Sunday 30th March 3pm soloist tba
Sunday 26th April 3pm soloist tba

Forthcoming Orchestral Rehearsals:
Tuesdays at 7.45pm at Eltham Park Methodist Church
27th January,
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th February
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st March
7th tbc, 14th, 21st, 28th April
New members welcome just come along to any rehearsal or e-mail psaorchestra@interalia.plus.com for more details. 

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Carol Concert 21st December 2014

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

Carol Concert Sunday 21st December at 4.00pm

Introductory Music by the Orchestra from 3.45pm
'Passepied' from 'Three Dances from Le Roi S'Amuse' by Leo Delibes
'Joy to the World'
'Scherzo for Christmas'
'Calypso Carol' by Michael Peavy

Service begins at 4.00pm

Carol: Once in Royal David's City

Welcome and Opening Prayer

1st Lesson: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7 'The promise of a saviour'

Carol: O Come O Come Immanuel

2nd Lesson: Luke 1:26 - 33 'The birth of Jesus is foretold'

Carol: The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came

3rd lesson: Luke 2: 1 - 7 'The birth of Jesus'
Poem: 'Mary's Song'

Carol: Away in a Manger

4th Lesson: Luke 2: 8 - 16 'The Shepherds visit the baby Jesus'
Reading: 'The Shepherds' Carol'

Carol: God rest you merry gentlemen

Reading: 'Incarnation'

Carol medley

5th Lesson: Matthew 2:1 - 12 'The visit of the Magi'

Carol: Ding dong merrily on high

6th Lesson: John 1:1 - 5, 10 - 14 'The word became flesh'

Carol: In the bleak midwinter

The offering is taken as the orchestra play:
 'Air from a Suite in D' by Johann Sebastian Bach

Offering Prayer

Carol: O come all you faithful

Closing Prayers

Carol: Hark the herald angels sing

Blessing

Closing Music: 'Pastoral Symphony and Chorale' by Johann Sebastian Bach

We wish you a Merry Christmas

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.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Programme for Sunday 26th October 2014

Musical Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
Eltham Park Methodist Church
Westmount Road
SE9 1XX
Sunday 26th October 2014 at 3pm

PSA Chairman: Dorothy Cole
Hon. Musical Director: Martin Bunce AGSM
Conductor: Chris Cole
Leader: Roy Simpson   
Accompanist: Tom Wade
Guest Vocalist: Melanie Mehta (Soprano)
Accompanied by: Rosemary Chater (Piano)

Opening Music: Number one from 'Three Dale Dances' by Arthur Wood

Chairman: Reading, Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer    
Hymn: 'Angel voices ever singing'

Musical Items - Introduced by Ted Williams     
Overture: 'The Marriage of Figaro' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Vocal Items: Melanie Mehta (Soprano)
Accompanied by: Rosemary Chater (Piano)  

'Finlandia' by Jean Sibelius

Melanie and Rosemary return for further vocal items

Selection: Number One from 'Pomp and Circumstance ' by Edward Elgar

Secretary: Notices and Collection, during which the  
Orchestra play: 'Berenice' a minuet by George Frideric Handel
    
Chairman: Remarks
Hymn: ‘Come down O love divine’    
Benediction

Concluding Music: March 'The Great Little Army' by Kenneth J. Alford

Forthcoming Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for your diary:
Remembrance Sunday 9th November 3pm concert at New Eltham Methodist Church Footscray Road SE9 3UL with Lucy Bunce (Soprano/Harp) and Carol-Anne Wells performing the Warsaw Piano Concerto
Sunday 30th November 3pm with Simon Kale (Tenor) and
Stuart Kale (Piano)              
NO DECEMBER PSA
Sunday 26th January 3pm with The Halstow Community Choir Conducted by
Simon Eastwood

Forthcoming Orchestral Rehearsals:
Tuesday 7.45pm at Eltham Park Methodist Church
28th October
4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November
2nd, 9th, 16th December
New members welcome just come along to any rehearsal or e-mail psaorchestra@interalia.plus.com for more details.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Programme for Sunday 28th September 2014

Musical Pleasant Sunday Afternoon
Eltham Park Methodist Church
Westmount Road
SE9 1XX
Sunday 28 September 2014 at 3pm

PSA Chairman: Hazel Roberts
Hon. Musical Director: Martin Bunce AGSM
Conductors: Chris Cole and Martin Bunce
Leader: Roy Simpson   
Accompanist: Tom Wade
Guest Vocalist: James Hay Tenor)
Accompanied by Anne Clements (Piano)
 
Opening Music: 'Praludium' by Armas Jarnefelt

Chairman: Reading, Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer    
Hymn: 'Come ye thankful people come'

Musical Items - Introduced by Ted Williams     
Overture: 'The Bohemian Girl' by Michael William Balfe  

Vocal Items: James Hay (Tenor) 
Accompanied by Anne Clements (Piano)

'Cavatina' by Joachim Raff

James and Anne return for further vocal items

Selection: From 'Chu Chin Chow' by Frederic Norton 

Secretary: Notices and Collection, during which the  
Orchestra play: 'Glow-worm' by Paul Lincke 
    
Chairman: Remarks
Hymn: 'We plough the fields and scatter'     

Benediction

Concluding Music: March 'Abschied Der Gladiatoren' - The Gladiators' Farewell by Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg 

Forthcoming Pleasant Sunday Afternoons for your diary:
Sunday 26th October 3pm Melanie Mehta (Soprano) with Rosemary Chater (Piano)
Remembrance Sunday 9th November 3pm Concert at New Eltham Methodist Church Footscray Road SE9 3UL with Lucy Bunce (Soprano/Harp) and Carol-Anne Wells performing the Warsaw piano concerto
Sunday 30th November 3pm with Simon Kale (Tenor) and Stuart Kale (Piano)              
NO DECEMBER PSA
Sunday 26th January 3pm with The Halstow Community Choir

Forthcoming Orchestral Rehearsals:
Tuesday 7.45pm at Eltham Park Methodist Church
30th September
7th, 14th, 21st, 28th October
4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November
2nd, 9th, 16th December
New members welcome just come along to any rehearsal or e-mail psaorchestra@interalia.plus.com for more details.