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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nIt was a little\nchilly heading down to Belhaven Church but the dazzling Christmas\nlights along Dunbar High Street and the sense of anticipation for\nthe annual Christmas Concert of Dunbar Choral is a familiar reminder\n that the festive season is rapidly approaching .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The eager\ncongregation were treated to a mix of both traditional and more\nrecent carols. The Choir sang the rhythmically tricky Tomorrow\nshall be my dancing day<\/em> by John Gardener and Rutter\u2019s Nativity\nCarol <\/em>in which the lower parts provided a softly hummed chorus\ntothe soprano melody. The congregation were also treated to a\ntrip around Europe with Gabriel\u2019s message<\/em> from the Basque\nRegion, Maiden most gentle<\/em> from France and German carol Still,\nStill, Still<\/em> before heading back to Britain for the Sans day\ncarol <\/em>from Cornwall.<\/em> The choir were in fine voice and many\nof the carols were sung by all four parts which added depth to the\nperformance. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The congregation\nsang with enthusiasm when joining the choir to sing traditional\ncarols such as O come, all ye faithful<\/em> and God rest ye\nmerry gentlemen<\/em>. The programme was enriched by the addition of\nreadings of Christmas prose and poetry selected and read by Gordon\nRoberts. They ranged from thought provoking to humourous through\nThomas Hardy to Gervase Phinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nThe Choir was directed by Philip Rossiter with much passion and\nenthusiasm, accompanied on the piano, in sparkling style, by Marian\nThomson \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chance to\nchat to the choir members over mulled wine and mince pies afterwards\nin the church hall was a great way to end a fantastic evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rehearsals restart 7.15pm Tuesday, 14th<\/sup> January 2020. All welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alison Hardy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We hope that a review of the concert will appear in the Courier, but you can read it here. Dunbar Choral Christmas Concert 12th December 2019 It was a little… <\/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-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunbarchoral.org.uk\/dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}