The Courier will include this soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s Wednesday\n12th<\/sup> December and it\u2019s a little chilly outside,\nChristmas has arrived in Dunbar. The lights are up in the High Street\nand it\u2019s time for Dunbar Choral\u2019s annual Christmas Concert. The\nchoir and an eager crowd gathered in Belhaven Church for what\npromised to be a truly Christmassy evening, the audience were not\ndisappointed. They were treated to a range of diverse songs and\ncarols including Peter Warlock\u2019s arrangement of Adam lay\nybounden<\/em> last sung by the choir in 2011 to a riotous Rutter\narrangement of The Twelve Days of Christmas <\/em> which the\naudience particularly enjoyed. All the chosen arrangements \nshowcased Dunbar Choral\u2019s varied repertoire and balance of voices.\nThe choir has a range of ages and although not so many tenor and bass\nsingers they come through brilliantly. The Soloist Diane Kerr was, as\nalways, a delight to listen to whilst soloing in Winter Wonderland<\/em>\n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Choral pieces\nwere added to by the enthusiastic audience in the church\nparticipating in more traditional carols such as O Little Town of\nBethlehem<\/em>. Gordon Roberts added another dimension to the evening\nwith his readings from many different sources evoking medieval times\nto the present day and ranging from the thought provoking to the\nhighly entertaining; these were enjoyed by all in the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe contribution of father and son team of Vaughan and David Townhill\nshould not go unnoticed. Vaughan conducts with passion and enthusiasm\nand David provides accompaniment with so much musicality and\nenjoyment it\u2019s hard not to sing out when participation is called\nfor. This is their last Christmas Concert; after 10 years at the helm\nthey are to leave the choir after the performance of Jenkins The\nArmed Man<\/em> at the 70th<\/sup> Anniversary concert in May. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chance to\nchat to the choir members over a cup of mulled wine and mince pies\nafterwards in the church hall was a great way to end a fantastic\nevening. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alison Hardy<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Courier will include this soon It\u2019s Wednesday 12th December and it\u2019s a little chilly outside, Christmas has arrived in Dunbar. The lights are up in the High Street and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}